I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync's developer, Lemmy's developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!

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[–] gk99@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The people who develop lemmy get paid to do so, as stated by iirc Dessalines themselves.

I would put donating to those running instances at the highest priority, because without servers, we have nothing.

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

That grant is coming to an end, if it hasn't already.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

They get paid from an NLnet grant, but it's only for specific features (not bug fixing) and it's not a living wage

[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How to prevent it from becoming a Wikipedia situation then with server owners begging for money constantly?

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Accept the instance owners will be forced to turn to shittier methods of income, like ads.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Spreading the load over many small instances will likely prevent this. It can be quite cheap to host lemmy well, but everything is expensive when you scale up 1000x