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.

https://join-lemmy.org/donate

https://liberapay.com/Lemmy

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

https://liberapay.com/PieFed/

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

https://docs.joinmbin.org/contributing/

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

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
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    15 days ago

    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.

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
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        15 days ago

        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.

    • AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.spaceOPEnglish
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      15 days ago

      They posted asking for people to stand up for them.

      Ah, that makes sense - I missed that, but have been happily giving them a bit of money for years now. I don’t have a lot to spare, but every little bit helps with crowdfunded stuff like that.

  • Matth78@lemm.eeEnglish
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    15 days ago

    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.

  • Jack@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Intended to do it long time ago, finally committed!

    I have spent way too much time on lemmy this past two years, it is worth the money.

  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Honestly, even if it’s 2p a month, it’ll add up and ensure the longevity of the service at the heart of what we all use daily.

  • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Oh yea I started donating all right…to PieFed, .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.socialEnglish
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      15 days ago

      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.

      • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        15 days ago

        As was brought up in those threads, but it’s simply not good enough, it’s just paying for .ml with extra steps (e.g. through their pay/salary rather than directly funding hosting costs)

        • ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 days ago

          If it’s any consolation, the admins of .ml will likely indefinitely host .ml with or without the support of patrons funding the development of Lemmy. Your support or lack thereof will never affect its operation.

      • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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        14 days ago

        This is a bold lie that Nutomic keeps pushing. These donations go directly to Nutomic and Dessalines. The servers are not the problem. The problem is the admins who happen to be the devs.

      • Genius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Do they have a link where your money doesn’t go towards moderation costs?

        No. Because they’re scammers. They want you to pay them so they can ban people for being against genocide all day.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      15 days ago

      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.

      • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        14 days ago

        We get it, you hate Lemmy as a platform.

        I have been so very clear on this being about .ml and the admins in charge of it that it’s obvious you’re just posting a straw man.

        You try so hard to make it less appealing by splitting discussions on posts by reposting stuff needlessly.

        Lol, no: https://lemmy.world/comment/16087942

        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.

        Because they use the .ml instance and it’s influence as being associated as the “Official Dev Instance” to push their Tankie “ideology”, to include spreading dangerous misinformation and propaganda

        They could solve it almost overnight by turning over .ml to a new as fair and unbiased as possible admin team. As was also brought up in those donations threads. In fact to paraphrase another user: “Devs should do dev work and not mod work and admins/mods should do mod work and not dev work”.

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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          14 days ago

          I have been so very clear on this being about .ml and the admins in charge of it that it’s obvious you’re just posting a straw man.

          Your intentions can be whatever. You are actively harming Lemmy and the fediverse as a whole.

          Because they use the .ml instance and it’s influence as being associated as the “Official Dev Instance”

          Really because every turn I see it seems like they push people away from joining .ml…

          fair and unbiased as possible

          What does this even mean?

        • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          14 days ago

          Lol to accuse you of not liking Lemmy as a platform. It doesn’t get much more strawman. Lol you’re one of the most frequent posters I see on Lemmy in general 😝

          • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            14 days ago

            “They’re active on here all the time because they hate being here”

      • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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        14 days ago

        Weird how if you are an asshole to your users it makes them into enemies.

        I joined Lemmy with every intention to contribute and make a significant donation as well. But after getting banned and dogpiled for daring to say things like “Russia shot down a civilian airplane” and “the ML theory you are referencing does say what you claim it says,” I’m also here to say the fediverse will be better without cringe keyboard warriors like Dessalines and trabsphobes like Nutomic being involved with it. There are other projects to support.

    • highduc@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Ummm if you don’t think this is good news you’re definitely on the wrong platform.
      Lemmy devs are awesome, Lemmy is great, and I’m happy to contribute a small donation.

          • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            14 days ago

            Nutomic himself has quite a history with real shitty takes and horrible stances. Including transphobia Etc.

            Then there is said flagship instance. It’s run as a leninist Vanguard fiefdom and Echo chamber. Not a development hub. Its lemmy.ml and not lemmy.org for a reason. Much of the most egregious moderation not being done by moderators but administrators. All directly under and at nutomic’s discression. Which people are well within their right to object to. Especially being told their donations must go towards enabling it.

            There are a ton of devs out there with shitty politics. But it’s most of them are smart/mature enough to keep them separate.

            • Randomgal@lemmy.caEnglish
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              14 days ago

              So this has nothing to do with reality, you just don’t like the they don’t share your opinions.

              • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                14 days ago

                Your projecting. I literally said in the donation thread that I don’t care if they run their own political server in their own free time with their own resources. It doesn’t matter whether or not I agree with it. What matters is that they want to tell us that we must contribute to their hobby and political crusade. They can make all the poor life choices they want. They just can’t include me or anyone else in it.

          • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            15 days ago

            Ive referenced it in other posts, follow the link in OP to the begging thread and scroll to the comments, I’m sure you’ll find what you’re looking for if the comments weren’t removed

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

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