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Please consider supporting Lemmy development (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by sunaurus@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee

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Hey folks!

I'm writing this because funding for the Lemmy project has dropped to critical levels, which could seriously impact its future development.

Thanks to the generous support of our lemm.ee community, our server infrastructure costs are covered, and we even have a few months of runway. I'm deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed - lemm.ee wouldn't exist without your help.

However, infrastructure alone isn’t enough. Our servers run Lemmy software, and without ongoing development, the platform cannot grow or even be maintained.

Lemmy is an open-source project with many contributors, but the vast majority of development work has been carried out by a small group of core maintainers. A few maintainers work full-time on the project, relying solely on donations and occasional grants to support themselves.

I've seen Lemmy development up close, and the maintainers have consistently gone above and beyond what I consider the standard for small open-source teams - they are constantly writing code, mentoring contributors, and keeping everything running. Their work is essential, and without continued support, it cannot be sustained.

If you value Lemmy, please consider supporting its maintainers directly. Every bit helps.

Please check out this post for more details about how to support the maintainers: https://lemm.ee/post/63034576

Thank you for reading, I hope you have a great weekend!

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[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm simply explaining the grievances people have that is stopping them from donating and what I personally would do in your situation to alleviate those grievances. That grievance is the nature of lemmy.ml which you've either voluntarily or involuntarily let slip into promoting a very specific political agenda that most lemmy users don't agree with. If you're genuine in your desire to have lemmy.ml as something that helps development then it should be apparent to you how the current state of lemmy.ml contradicts that desire. If you can't acknowledge that I can only assume you're using the development of lemmy as an excuse to keep lemmy.ml as it is.

Which segues to the end of my previous comment. If you think that's unfair to the users of the instance then the only thing that you can do is step away. You can always start a new instance or you can work something out with the existing instance owners to get the data and feedback you need to develop Lemmy. And to be clear those instances can't be Lemmygrad or Hexbear because those two instances are also not acceptable for most Lemmy users and wouldn't solve the grievances people have.

At the end of the day it is not my concern if you get funded or not. I have no issue funding the development despite your obviously transphobic stance and Dessalines stance on Uighurs because I am capable of separating your work from who you are. I don't have to like you to support your work so I'm willing to compromise here. But me tolerating both of you doesn't mean I'm going to compromise supporting a platform that is actively promoting an agenda I cannot accept. I've already compromised on tolerating you, how about you compromise a bit to meet half way? If you're unwilling to compromise this is my final alternative to supporting lemmy. Remove yourselves from the project, let someone more reasonable than you to take over and I'll donate to them.

You have to understand that at this point Lemmy is bigger than you and its popularity is growing in spite of you and lemmy.ml. The fact that Lemmy is growing but your donations are shrinking should make that point evident. It's up to you if you're going to adjust to the new reality or stick your old ways and run into monetary issues.