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How would you feel about awards on lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fact is, the Lemmy ecosystem needs money to handle the growing server reqirements as more people migrate as well as the development cost of new features (I know Lemmy is OSS but the devs should still get some compensation for their effort).

Seeing how much some reddit users love awards so much that they cant stop giving money to Reddit to award posts protesting the api change, this could be a great way for users to voluntary support the ecosystem. It can be easily ignored by users not caring about them (clients could even add an option to hide them), but users liking the feature can go wild and this time the money goes to volunteers keeping this alive instead of greedy admins, power mods and investors.

Though there would be some big organization questions attached: attached:

Which server handles the payment? A centralized one, the one where the post was made or the one where the user giving the award account was created.
How will the money be shared between the Devs and the individual instances in a way that is fair but cant be abused easily.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Could we like, not immediately talk about monetisation 1 month after leaving reddit? If you want to support your instance host, you can ask for a way to donate.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

The hard truth is that long term, we likely need another way besides donations to keep the ecosystem alive.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Or maybe some people just can't imagine how this could work without being centered around money.

Lemmy has been around for years. New instances are popping up as new users come in. So far, I haven't seen an instance suffering from lack of funds, but others being funded for months ahead, some even donating excess funds to Lemmy devs.

All while topics like these pop up every other day. For me, it looks like catastrophization. Seeking solutions for problems which do not exist (yet? Not even sure about that).

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