Just saw this by chance: Donations and Patrons for Lemmy development surged massively on Liberapay in the last weeks!

[abnormalhumanbeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space]

Don't know what the exact cause was/is for this big surge - but I am glad to see it. No matter what personal problems people may have with the main devs, they are doing great work on the platform.

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Lemmy's profile - Liberapay

An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks …

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Also of interest, since this is a good place to plug things, other threadiverse things:

PieFed's profile - Liberapay

I'm building PieFed, an open source federated forum similar to Reddit, Lemmy or Kbin. See https://piefed.social for a demonstration and more info at https://join.piefed.social…

Liberapay (liberapay.com)

And I couldn't find a way to donate to mbin, in lieu of that:

Contributing | Mbin Docs

Thanks for considering contributing to Mbin! We appreciate your interest in helping us improve the project.

(docs.joinmbin.org)

EDIT: The creator of mbin gave a link in the comments: https://melroy.org/donate.html

[xanthobilly@lemmy.world]

[Guest]

They posted asking for people to stand up for them. Dirty communists like myself (okay, and others) stood up and pushed that message everywhere we could. Because you have to want freedom and democracy. It does not come for free.

[matth78@lemm.ee]

Dev posted few weeks ago about donations being a little short and having lowered making it more difficult to support development. A lot of people then started to donate or increase their financial support.

Edit : for reference https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005

[avidamoeba@lemmy.ca]

I see Saddam Hussein.

Also, we're doing our part. They're still halfway from their nodest goal though.

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

Oh yea I started donating all right...to PieFed (I don't even have a PF account), .world and .cafe.

I won't be giving a penny to them until I see some major changes in regards to .ml as so many people called for on every other version of the donation thread that wasn't .ml

[coldsideofyourpillow@piefed.social]

You can still donate to Lemmy without supporting ML! From https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.ml/post/29579005:

Update: For those of you who want to support Lemmy development without financing the hosting of lemmy.ml, know that the hosting is paid exclusively through OpenCollective. You can see the payment details at this link. This means donations through all other platforms (Liberapay, Ko-fi, Patreon, Crypto) are exclusively for Lemmy development, and not a single cent goes to lemmy.ml hosting.

Edit: Liberapay is the preferable donation option, as it has very low fees and is also open source.

[bdonvr@thelemmy.club]

We get it, you hate Lemmy as a platform. You try so hard to make it less appealing by splitting discussions on posts by reposting stuff needlessly. Really makes Lemmy look even more unoriginal and boring seeing the same posts 3 times in different places all the time. Then you spearhead some movement to try to get people to not donate to Lemmy development at all, making it harder for these people who are trying to make Lemmy their life's work to be able to even survive. It's actually gross.

[genius@lemmy.zip]

[Guest]

That joke was actually pretty funny. But what were those other posts mate? Show a little respect to the people giving you the opportunity to post here at all.

[yerbouti@sh.itjust.works]

This reminded me that I wanted to support. Just did a yearly payment. Thanks for the amazing work guys! I can't believe a just a few people can maintain such an amazing ecosystem. One day people will understand that, in 48 hours, we could destroy the entire gafam system and replace it with a fair alternative: the Fediverse and FLOSS.

[prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works]

… what does it mean‽‽‽‽

[prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works]

We have no reason to support people who use language, and that support, to spout bigoted shit AND push their authoritarian agenda.

It’s weird how words on a public forum meant for transparency can come back to be used against you and make folks disagree, right?

[flashmobofone@lemmy.world]

Awesome.

I have a monthly contribution set up. Subscribing is way better than dealing with ads.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Yeah because the genocidal tankie scum begged for contributions after a lot of us started boycotting them and lemmy ml.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

You shouldn't pay those tankies imo

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

They could probably get more people if they didn't promote Russia's attacks on Ukraine and advocate against trans rights.

[yerbouti@sh.itjust.works]

I mean, why are you here if that's what you believe? Lemmy is much more than .ml

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

I'm here exactly because ml doesn't represent us. Hopefully those losers lose so much funding that they abandon the project and somebody else picks it up.

Even if nobody picked it up that would still be better than paying those .ml dictator-cocksuckers.

[yerbouti@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah, and I'm donating so we can all be here. I'm not on ml, I don't share most of their view, I want to support Lemmy development as a whole.