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September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations (blog.mastodon.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/support@lemmy.world
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The latest blog post about our .world and the Fedihosting Foundation. As you can read in the blog, the donations are no longer covering our running costs. If you are able to spare a few Euro's or dollars or whatever currency, please check the list of our donation platforms in the blog.

Edit: I will add these to the blog: https://bunq.me/fhf (for EU bank transfers) https://github.com/sponsors/Fedihosting-Foundation (Github Sponsor)

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Is there a guarantee that none of these donations go to the tankie dev?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I'm assuming that you're referring to the Lemmy developers. FHF supports Lemmy development with a monthly donation of €50, same as we do for Mastodon development.

    If it makes you feel better, there are enough other people donating who don't mind some or all of their donation amount going towards Lemmy development to offset your donation not being used for Lemmy development contributions.

    It's not worth the effort to set up independent purpose-bound donation pools to separate donations from people unwilling to support certain people/organizations, as the end result would be the same, except a lot more maintenance/accounting overhead. Calculating with the current expenses of €1,700/month, this is less than 3% of the total donations we'd need to cover our bills.

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  • [+] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It's not being "split", they give a flat 50 € regardless of whether you donate 0 € to them or 1 million €. In fact if more people donate to .world this will, infact, water down the percentage.

    If the organisation had a monthly revenue of 1 000 000 € and gave 50 € to them, this would be such a vanishingly small percentage (0.005%) that it could well be argued to be negligible

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    What a passive agressive response

    It isn't worth donating if my money goes to .ml admins, any amount

    It's morally wrong to give money to people who use their platform to spout fascist propaganda

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Are they tankies or fascists? Pick one.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is there a difference? They both support fascist dictatorships.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Isn’t that a .ml issue, not a .world issue?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Okay, but what if a dev on .world is a tankie? Who can risk their money going towards a functioning community website if there's any chance someone I hate might cover rent and groceries?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Did you not see the breakdown of where the money goes? These aren't being paid out to these people individually they're not getting paid a salary. They donate their time. All the money goes to the functioning of the Fediverse and .worlds.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Tbh, for me idc. Better a tankie than a fascist. And better an ancom than a tankie.

    Whichever tankie allies with ancoms to fight the fascist, is my friend.

    But, indeed unfortunately, a ton of self-proclaimed tankies actually are fascists.

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