Fediverse

Supporting Lemmy won't do much to help the Threadiverse thrive imho. Instead I suggest supporting PieFed, for many uh... reasons. One being that it is written in Python (which many developers are already familiar with, rather than the extremely niche Rust that even experienced C++ coders are loathe to have to learn) and thus has a ton of features already that Lemmy lacks (see https://join.piefed.social/features/), plus it's only continuing to add still yet more, on a monthly basis even.

By comparison, Lemmy requests sit for literally years and years, while a lot of the donations, rather than going to support further code development, instead goes to support the, let's just say "highly controversial" instance lemmy.ml.

Lemmy won't "die", but it's never going to hit mainstream. Visit r/RedditAlternatives in any given post to find out why (hint: tankies, which Westerners do not like, probably bc tankie instances are full of content calling for the literal murder of Westerners as well as the actual fall of those civilizations - for some reason though these anti-Western sentiments seems to drive people who live there away? Go figure!🤪🙃).

PieFed on the other hand might just have a chance, and the dev team is super friendly and highly responsive. At least check it out.

Also, post content! More than most other things you could do, that would help a lot.

If you use an 3rd party native iOS or Android app, leave them a nice review! Also star any related projects on GitHub or codeberg.

I suggest you financially support PieFed instead and the instance you are on.

Servers cost money to run, many lemmy servers have set up a way to donate for server costs.

You can try to post about lemmy on other platforms, but be aware that that carries a risk of getting banned.

Normally I'd also recommend supporting the devs, but fuck tankies. I plan to switch to Piefed because of that, since it's obviously hypocritical to keep using a standard Lemmy server when you dislike the devs so much.

You can also contribute if you feel some content is missing, start a community or contribute things to an existing one. Quality is the result of care.

Did everyone just forget that the Lemmy devs are tankies?

If you want to specifically support Lemmy financially, then you want to support the devs: https://join-lemmy.org/donate

An alternative is to support your instance by donating to them instead. Lemmy.world is your instance, so here's the link to donate to them: https://liberapay.com/fhf

FHF stands for Fedihosting Foundation and are the people who host LW and many other Fediverse instances with the world TLD. https://fedihosting.foundation/hosted/

I donate monthly (recurring) to:

• Lemmy development: https://join-lemmy.org/donate
• Our Lemmy instance: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate

Currently most large instances are well funded so I'd personally focus on development funding.

https://join-lemmy.org/donate

There you can directly donate to the Lemmy devs

Donate to Lemmy (or Piefed) development directly, then your home instance. If you've still got some cash burning a hole in your pocket, donating to instances that host communities you particularly care about is also something you can do

To support development financially, the first best way is to donate to the devs, for which people have already posted links.

The second best alternative, in particular for the people who are butthurt about the devs having their given political position yet hypocritically continue to fund or promote things like iPhone child labor, Amazon, Walmart, corporate backing of Israel military, or US taxes, would be to financially support the maintainers of the Lemmy instance(s) you are in. Most instance have their own "donate" / "support" link somewhere. Check yours.

(another advantage to supporting the instance you are in is that you would, usually, experience sooner or larger improvements in return for your investment. Better storage or network plan for your instance = better speed or uptime for posting lolcats)

Third best way, probably, is to finance public or state-level advocacy for Lemmy and/or Fediverse general. Alas I don't know what if any organizations exist there nor how are they taking money (and report on its usage).