Just curious as this is all fun and open till it scales to expensive. What is the lemmy.ca plan to sustain / fund it self?
Constant donation nagging like Wikipedia?
Just curious as this is all fun and open till it scales to expensive. What is the lemmy.ca plan to sustain / fund it self?
Constant donation nagging like Wikipedia?
Many of us donate monthly. That’s something that comes with the realization that there we’re paying for the service one way or another. It’s the subscription fee to having these services.
For what it’s worth, donating annually or every 3/6 months etc is a lot more efficient with transaction fees, especially if you’re giving $1-2.
True, which is why Liberapay and probably others bundle the transactions and execute them at less frequent intervals. That said the commitment that allows for budgeting and projections is important.
That is really cool, I didn’t know that!
Unfortunately, my instance uses Ko-Fi which I don’t think has a system like that - they only offer one time and monthly.
It might still be better to have couple of people subscribing for $2/mo than getting one submit larger donations less often. Another option is to do funding drives with transparent numbers but that is more work. As a user I prefer to pay an inconsequential amount of money monthly that fades in the background of bills. That way I know “I did my part” and I can stop thinking about it. If I can afford more than an inconsequential amount, I’d just contribute more.
Also providing more payment options even if they’re not as privacy-friendly could be a good thing. Especially if you outline that. E.g.
Privacy-friendly:
Traditional:
As a user, I might opt to go with a traditional option because it’s much easier to do. Chances are I have PayPal or Google Pay, etc.
Subscription options should be as frictionless as possible. Lemmy developers did good with adding Patreon since many people who understand the small subscription model use it.
My perspective is, I pay $12 dollars or whatever a month for Spotify. I spend at least as much time using services like this as I do that. So it’s very much worthwhile to me to contribute to something like this, particularly considering it’s not trying to serve me ads.