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buda Jun 8, 2023

How is Lemmy going to make money?

How is Lemmy going to make money? - Lemmy

If the reddit exodus happens and Lemmy gets even 2% of reddit’s daily active users, how will Lemmy sustain the increased traffic? I know donations are an option, but I don’t think long term donations will be sustainable. Most users will never donate. I know the goal of Lemmy isn’t to make money, but I know that servers and storage costs add up quickly. Not to mention the development costs. I would love to hear the plans for how to offset those costs in the future?

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Dessalines Jun 8, 2023

When our open source grant from NLNet runs out at the end of this year, we will have to switch to full community funding, probably via yearly funding drives. Currently we only have two full-time devs, @[email protected] and I, but could potentially add more to our little worker coop as we grow.

If you'd like to help us out, here's our donation page: https://join-lemmy.org/donate

Liberapay is much preferred, but the other ones work too. I'm sincerely grateful to everyone who has or is contributed, it really does make us feel like we're working on something worthwhile.

@nutomic - Lemmy

Lemmy maintainer. Like programming in Rust. Also posting at https://fedibb.ml/view_profile?u=2 [https://fedibb.ml/view_profile?u=2]

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aianarchist Jun 9, 2023

What is the difference between librepay and opencollective that makes you choose librepay? I'm hoping to review these platforms.

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Dessalines

Liberapay is simpler, automatically splits payment between devs, and has no fees (other than the payment processor). They're even funded by their own model.

Opencollective isn't as good because you have to submit invoices to get paid.

Patreon is absolutely the worst because it's not made for teams, and they take a big cut for essentially just running a wordpress for you with payment buttons.