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.

I personally block hexbear, and de facto ignore lemmy.ml because I find it to be a hive of vitriol and unproductive toxic behaviour, but I still signed up to donate because imho, lemmy's open and decentralized nature make it fundamentally valuable and a worthwhile piece of societal infrastructure.

But please don't abuse our trust.

I love lemmy the project. But there has too much political arguments in some communities and they will hate you if you aren't 100% agree with them. Even the post and the group/community are not political, comments will turn it to political. I am kind of tired(although I know some ppl are thrilled with political arguments). There is not much the devs can do, but the content does affect the user experience quite a lot.

Nevertheless, thanks for all the hard work, nutomic and dessalines. I will donate.

Just did the $5 donation on patreon. It's on a lot but I hope it helps, I might not agree with everything the founders believe in but I really appreciate this open sourced community and the ideas and conversations I've had on it. It's definitely worth supporting

Have you considered applying for a FUTO grant?

https://futo.org/grants/

lemmy.ml is run by the developers?

Donated on Liberapay.

As others have said, this is financing software development, not a political campaign. I first learned of the fediverse when Reddit removed 3rd party apps, and I felt like my eyes were opened. This is what I want the internet to be, decentralized and running on open source software, and I'm sure I'm far from being alone in this, so thanks to the devs for that.

Also Jerboa is great!

Literally all we need is everyone to kick in a couple bucks a month and I think everything would be in great shape. I think the user base is like 65k+ users currently?

If I didn't respond to anyone below, thank you. It means a lot, and makes the years of work I've spent on lemmy feel worthwhile and important.

To those who don't want to give because of the devs' political views, I'd like to say this goes into improving the Lemmy software our communities here are based on, not making some political podium for the devs in particular.

There's a lot of rubbish on Lemmy.... because it's the internet. Like the Great Garbage Patch of the Pacific, it collects; but I still like the Ocean. Some people look down particularly on .ml, but personally I think this is unjustified.

In fact, before joining Lemmy I heard some rumour of the controversy and went looking. I certainly disagree strongly with certain things I found, but my impression was of Dessalines and Nutomic treating the Internet as a forum for respectful debate and this Lemmy as a technology project not a personal political force - as many see Reddit as becoming. Well, that was my impression, so I was happy to join, and I've not been disappointed.

On this Lemmy software we have many communities, some which vehemently hate each other, but we're all supported by this foundational software. If it's too awful to you, you could of course use a different platform, and still federate with the Lemmy communities you love! But we're still here.

Because, after all, in any real community there are people you don't get on with, and part of life is about learning what it means to love each other and live together even so. And that goes for every software project too - somewhere, hiding in the dark recesses, is something quite unpalatable intrinsically linked in. If your ideology says you can't use anything built with such problems, you'd better start building everything yourself.

So, you don't have to support Lemmy. Even if you use it. You don't have to agree with my take on it. But I'd like to encourage most of you to consider supporting Dessaline and Nutomic to continue this development work, and not just the bare minimum they need - let it overflow with blessing, since we have received such blessing from them!

...Or you can all send me angry replies for ranting too long on the Internet about something you disagree with ;-)

Do you have a preference as to which platform the donation is done through?

I'm putting in a dollar a week for the second year now and i plan on keeping it up. If only 1500 people did what I do, we're completely fine.

If you host an instance, please give a dollar a week. If you spend more than 10 hrs on lemmy per week, please give a dollar. Its not that hard. Think what stuff you pay more for and spend less time o, have less fun on and learn less from.

I also think that big instances should be funneling a portion of their donations to the devs. I send more than I get, which is my choice.

Democracy requires participation.