As others mentioned, you can either donate code or money. If you want to help Lemmy.ml the most, I recommend the Patreon linked above since it goes straight to the Lemmy.ml admin (who very much needs cash to stay afloat because he’s been working on Lemmy full-time for years, for peanuts)
So you don’t want to contribute to the Lemmy project, because other instances might benefit from it?
they already have plenty of support; but if that’s the only way to contribute then i’ll do it.
is it?
You can contribute monetarily, check https://join-lemmy.org
As others mentioned, you can either donate code or money. If you want to help Lemmy.ml the most, I recommend the Patreon linked above since it goes straight to the Lemmy.ml admin (who very much needs cash to stay afloat because he’s been working on Lemmy full-time for years, for peanuts)