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:

Hi admins! Could we get updated financial info for this year? Are the costs still the same? There was a tax bill last year, is there one this year? Did you ever find an accountant? As a small point of order, it's better to have all of the financial info up to date before asking for more money.

I setup a monthly reoccurring bank transfer last year, but I'd like to see current financial information to know if I need to adjust my transfer amount.

I can give €4 a month for ya.

Also, we had some unexpected extra costs (over 1000,–) when we had to pay taxes for the foundation (strange, for a non-profit..). I'll see if we can get an accountant to check this, but also accountants are costly..

Ouch

Do you have any non-profit support organizations, local to where you have your accounts, that might be able to help for cheap or pro-bono?

Thank you for all the work you do!

I would like to donate with Bitcoin if possible.

Threw 20 Euro in. 👍

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!

What's a suggested donation for an average user? I currently have €1/mo set up via LiberaPay.

5$ a month. I was just thinking about how I'd never pay for any kind of reddit anything. But this doesn't feel all hurty in my soul. Ty for making a space that's not hyper capitalist.

I'm doing my part! Thanks for all the hard work to keep lemmy.world running!

Oh what the heck, I can chip in a few bucks a month to support social media that isnt evil

Thank you for doing a patreon! Signed up for $2 a month, its not much, but if I know me, ill never cancel it. Its so easy everybody, go sign up for a couple bucks a month!