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https://blog.mastodon.world/september-2025-updates-for-the-worlds-and-call-for-donations

    • Isaac (ieh)@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Thank you <3

      And to everyone else as I won’t reply to everyone so as not to spam up the thread :)

  • BitsAndBites@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I setup a liberapay at the end of last year for a small recurring donation every 3 months ( since it was a smaller amount they had me do it quarterly instead ). If you contimue to use it regularly and can afford to throw them a cup of coffee’s donation monthly, think about signing up.

    • zoloftt@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It’s already semi-p2p by the way federation works. I think it would be highly ineffective to make it actually p2p.

      Imagine having every user host their own community on an instance. Then you have to federate across other users to have other content in the instance, . But instead of it being 400 instances now, it’s 77,000 instances all trying to stay current from various toshiba shitboxes.

      Content aggregation is more of a “master list” problem than a computing problem to solve. Which is easier from a central repo.

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      the 90%/9%/1% rule or whatever suggests that ~90% of users won’t give any effort, so any amount of friction like installing/debugging/managing/administrating their P2P setup is a no-go

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      There is something like that called Plebbit, it’s a good example of all the downsides of such a system.

      It’s decentralized and “censorship proof” AKA completely unmoderated with all the spamming and unsavory content one might expect. The CSAM issue is mostly avoided because it doesn’t support any kind of media sharing (only plain text) due to the bandwidth for P2P connections and avoiding having to store that on the client. Last time I checked content also simply disappears when users disconnect.

      The federated system is better because it’s more efficient and scales better since only a couple hundred instances have to send/receive activity instead of hundred thousands of users individually. It also helps ensure content is moderated. Admins tend to keep their own instance clean and defederate from instances that don’t.

  • Nickelalloy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Thought about this some days ago that I should donate more to organisations that does good, now this comes up and I instantly clixk the links, turns out I am already a monthly donor!

  • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I plan on donating 40$ when I can, I am a broke pos lol. But my last post here was bringing up how there should be a few sponsors and having user based services that can be shown via a top banner and only the sites that users gravitate towards while also keeping the site open source.

    I’m not saying that you should take in government sponsors like reddit did but there’s a good middle ground to where you can have some sponsors that the users gravitate towards, that’s why i suggested tuxedo computers, graphene and maybe even a third party store that’s known for selling google pixels.

    I’m not against the donation based open source ran motto, in fact every single time I’ve ever thought about running an online store with shop, I’d have a paypal donation box to help support the site.

    I just saw what one open source user based site did to combat some of their issues while still taking in user donations and thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to emulate what they did but for this site.

    The example I gave that pulled this off when they were having some struggles rather than solely relying on user donations was Future4200.com an open-source cannabis extraction forum that has expanded towards botanical extraction of medicinal herbs. Anyway, they use the discourse layout and they were facing an issue with the site and refuses to take in corporate advertising and most everyone there is on board with the graphene scene and all that good stuff.

    example:

  • insanemantis@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s not much but I gave €10, keep up what you do because it’s my first day and I already don’t want this place to go

    I always feel self conscious sending small amounts, but then I think “maybe that’s what stops a lot of people from giving any” because an entire crowd that feels awkward not giving more than 20 actually amounts to a lot

    So, don’t even sweat it! Give any amount

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      1 month ago

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