• PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People need to donate. This is really the first test to see if Lemmy can become a true alternative. If the first popular instance collapses, that is going to discourage non-tech people who are already skeptical. I doubt that most want to have to maintain accounts of multiple instances, myself included.

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      1 year ago

      We don’t really want any one instance getting too big, it betrays the goal of the fediverse which is decentralization. Lemmy will never become a viable if everyone jumps to [insert flagship instance] and the admin is stuck with a thousands of dollars bill every month.

      Yes donate to the instance your using, but don’t get tied to an account until there’s a way to migrate them. Ideally join something a little smaller to share the load. You have to rethink the capitalistic “there can be only one” mindset if you delve into the fediverse.

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      1 year ago

      Seems like they have a decent clip of donations so far. But if they need to sell memberships or put up some innocuous banner ads to keep the service free, I’m okay with that too.

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        1 year ago

        Idk if ads will ever be a viable solution for Lemmy since everyone uses their own front end for the most part. It’s like the Reddit issue with third party apps not serving ads except on Lemmy that’s the majority of users.

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          1 year ago

          Individual instances can probably host ads or promoted posts. Not sure how that would work though.

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      1 year ago

      I haven’t seen any official posts linking to the Patreon made since this influx. People lurking aren’t very likely to think about it and seek that out. If it becomes a problem then I think making some sort of official announcement encouraging donations would go a long way. I personally already donated to the Patreon.