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!

    • feugnis@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      521·
      1 year ago

      You don’t have to explain if you can’t! Don’t feel bad. Supporting yourself should definitely come first. Hope you are doing alright.

    • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
      173·
      1 year ago

      Like every open source projects, you can donate with money or your time. Both are equally valuable. Promoting the project, helping new users, heck, even being pleasant and help fostering positive environment in the fediverse so new users feel welcomed is actually very valuable (especially given current reputation of fediverse citizens being especially harsh to new users).

      • Riccosuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        1 year ago

        I don’t get where this reputation came from? I’ve had more positive interactions on Lemmy in the last month than I had on Reddit in the last 10 years, literally. I feel like this is the internet equivalent of Iceland, everyone must think it is a frozen hellscape, but then you get here and it is actually a really nice place to be.

      • AzuleBlade@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        To add to this, it can even be as simple as reporting bugs you find, whether that be with the Lemmy code itself or a client you’re using.

    • spaxxor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      And that’s totally fine. That’s the beauty of the internet, not everybody has to pitch in, and if you can’t you shouldn’t feel bad about it. There was a time when I was a starving college student and was doing the five finger discount on a very regular basis. We’re glad you’re here regardless.

      My egalitarian FOSS is showing lol

    • Lupec@lemm.eeEnglish
      54·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I do wish there was some form of regional pricing going on. Doesn’t seem to be the case if the prices I’m seeing in my (also third world) country are anything to go by.

    • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
      34·
      1 year ago

      FYI if you still want to show support, librepay allows you to give a “symbolic donation” of just $0.01 a week, or $0.52 a year