Curious how lemmy servers are paid for. Is it donation?

  • skepticalifornia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m definitely not disagreeing with you, but Lemmy has grown so large since the original “tankies” started Lemmy.ml that I don’t think it is really an issue for the larger community. I’ve only been here for a month or so but I have not seen many (if any) communistic related posts on the feeds, and if they are trying to spread their leftist messages they are not doing a very good job of it.

    I have found Lemmy.world to be the most active platform, so I wanted to help out with server costs, thus the $2 per month. I have also donated to Ernest at Kbin and the Beehaw folks as well. I’m not going back to Reddit, so I want these communities to thrive and feel I need to pitch in the cost of a Latte every month to help out. Having said that, if I ever get the feeling that I am donating to some authoritarian cause I will stop donating immediately.

    • NotAPenguin@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I just wanted to make sure people knew that their money could go to tankies.

      You said you were giving to “Lemmy” on patreon, not Lemmy.world so I assumed it was the devs.