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How would you feel about awards on lemmy? (self.fediverse)
submitted 1 year ago by lesnake to c/fediverse
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Fact is, the Lemmy ecosystem needs money to handle the growing server reqirements as more people migrate as well as the development cost of new features (I know Lemmy is OSS but the devs should still get some compensation for their effort).

Seeing how much some reddit users love awards so much that they cant stop giving money to Reddit to award posts protesting the api change, this could be a great way for users to voluntary support the ecosystem. It can be easily ignored by users not caring about them (clients could even add an option to hide them), but users liking the feature can go wild and this time the money goes to volunteers keeping this alive instead of greedy admins, power mods and investors.

Though there would be some big organization questions attached: attached:

  • Which server handles the payment? A centralized one, the one where the post was made or the one where the user giving the award account was created.
  • How will the money be shared between the Devs and the individual instances in a way that is fair but cant be abused easily.
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Donations seem to work fine for Wikipedia as well. Same with internet archive. We should not underestimate the willingness of people to support a good cause.

[–] murphys_lawyer 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's almost like people are willing to spend money for a good cause, when they are not constantly being pressured and scammed into it.

[–] Pooptimist 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe something like signals donator badge would be a better solution

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I would love to see a social media network run under this model, and I think lemmy, kbin, etc are great candidates for that. The decentralized nature of the fediverse allows costs and user load to get spread out to other instances, vs. something centralized which concentrates all that on one org/person. I feel that makes a donation only system much more attainable