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Programming.dev instance: Sponsors needed (legal.programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, I'm relatively new to this instance but reading through the instance docs I found:

Donations are currently made using snowe’s github sponsors page. If you get another place to donate that is not this it is fake and should be reported to us.

Going to the sponsor page we see the following goal:

@snowe2010's goal is to earn $200 per month

pay for our 📫 SendGrid Account: $20 a month 💻 Vultr VPS for prod and beta sites: Prod is $115-130 a month, beta is $6-10 a month 👩🏼 Paying our admins and devops any amount ◀️ Upgrade tailscale membership: $6-? dollars a month (depends on number of users) Add in better server infrastructure including paid account for Pulsetic and Graphana. Add in better server backups, and be able to expand the team so that it's not so small.

Currently only 30% of the goal to break-even is being met. Please consider setting up a sponsorship, even if it just $1. Decentralized platforms are great but they still have real costs behind the scenes.

Note: I'm not affiliated with the admin team, just sharing something I noticed.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If Reddit back in the day had asked a few dollars for me to stick with using 3rd party apps using the API I would have. But they did the opposite, so here I am. First time actually donating to something, a measily $2 dollars a month, but hopefully a start to fund some of the free stuff I use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

$2/mo is pretty close to what Reddit premium was back before they turned the Reddit silver meme into a real thing! That’s a great amount to donate. Don’t sell yourself short.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ok, I'm in for $2 /month too, thanks for setting the standard!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you're thinking of something like $1-2/month, also consider doing a 30 dollar 1 time thing (it saves on transaction fees) and you basically just paid for 2-3 years of donations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From what i can tell there are no transaction fees for sponsorships from personal accounts, and organizations pay 6% (or 3% if invoicing). (Source)

Is there something else I'm not seeing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Is there something else I’m not seeing?

Possibly payment processing fees. Some banks/payment institutions charge you for a payment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The server sidebar has an uptime stat. Could also have a simple monthly costs covered percent stat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Since there's only github as a donation option, there are also other admins who can be sponsored through other means e.g @[email protected] has a Libera Pay account which allows donation without giving M$ more traction.

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