Thank you for finally allowing us to give you money for all the work you do for us!
Glad to have some knowledge (and control) in the financial security of the instance I've come to call home.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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I want to say that I've been blown away by the amount of support that's I've received in the last 24 hours. You all have left me speechless. Thank you everyone who have donated and those who couldn't, know that being a good member of this community already more than I could ask for. Thank you!
Wooo weee! tesh.itjust.works happened!! This is quite exciting.
Thanks for the update, all your efforts, and thanks to all the mods. They do great work here, folks. Happy to chip in and cover some costs.
Hell yeah, the best front end.
Checked it out, it is truly the sh.it. Definitely a nice lookin' frontend!
[Edit: played the usual period placement game and this time I lost, it was a working link to something. Fixed.]
It's awesome. Am I being stupid though? Is there a way to open your feed with a only the a group selected? For instance, if I want to open all of my grouped politics feeds only, I can't seem to do that.
Hm I'm not sure if the groups are meant to allow combined feeds, if that's what you mean? As far as I can see it's only used for organizing communities into folders.
I was hoping for one that could show you the feed. It might be a lot to ask since reddit didn't implement it until relative late. It didn't save any of my groups anyway, so I might wait to switch until some of the bugs get worked out. Still, it's a great UI.
The more I play with groups, the less baked it feels. I'm assuming these group concepts aren't part of the Lemmy API as it doesn't seem to sync with the server. Groups I created one browser, are stuck on that browser.
Mine was the same browser, but I clear all cookies for every time I'm on. That might have something to do with it for me. I agree, it does seem less baked than it should be. It's a side project, so I'm trying to be patient. I was just excited for a tags and groups for modding.
Thanks for keeping the lights on. The effort and time is appreciated.
Thanks for all the work you and the rest of the mod team do to keep this instance great. I appreciate the transparency on the operating costs and the opportunity for the rest of us to contribute.
What, if anything are you doing to help shield yourself against any personal liability? I'll admit I have exactly zero knowledge of Canadian law on the subject so I have no idea what what the implications are. I'm mostly just curious.
Keeping the pricing lean and reasonable! Hope we share the burden well.
Thank you for your generosity and the incredible experience you curate π
Recurring payment inbound!
Mad lad!
me being on the internet in 2016 means I had a double-take when I read the title
lmao yeah I had to get used to it myself.
I think itβs hilarious.
should we be offended?
I don't know how many of your users are european but for those it might be easier to donate on librepay if you accespt Euros as that allows for Bank transfers to donate.
Disclaimer: I don't plan to donate. I allready do for the instance I'm on and don't have that much money to spare. But I thought it might be worth thinking about if you have a significant european userbase.
Iβm from Europe and donating was easy. I used Apple Pay.
Awesome, signed up for an annual donation. Live long and prosper, admins!
TheDude, you are an amazing human being and your efforts enrich many lives, thank you!
Very cool, you run a great instance, Iβll donate.
Yup this one works.
Turns out "local only" communities are bugged.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4853
Liberapay or ko-fi, which one takes a smaller percentage of the donation?
Reading some deets:
Liberapay - does not take a cut of payments, the service is funded by donations to its own account. However, there are payment processing fees. The fees vary by payment processor, payment methods, countries, and currencies. In the last year, the average fee percentages have been 3.1% for the payments processed by Stripe and 5.1% for the payments processed by Paypal.
Ko-fi - No fee for one-off donations, 5% platform fee to use premium features/become a Ko-Fi contributor (basically, if TheDude and co give Ko-Fi a 5% cut in exchange for premium Ko-Fi features for TheDude and co). 5% on monthly donations, other stuff at same % that I don't think is relevant here. Normal payment processor fees apply (usually around 3% + $0.30)
My short verdict: Not a huge difference if doing one bigger donation at a time, go with Liberapay if you intend to do regular scheduled donations and maybe avoid Paypal if you can. Or whatever makes more sense, I'm far from a crowdfunding expert.
Liberapay doesn't take a cut of donations ^[1.1.1]^. They are only funded via donations, themselves ^[1.1.2][2]^. If a donation has fees, they are only transaction fees ^[1.1.3][1.2]^.
References
- "FAQ". Liberapay. Accessed: 2025-01-30T05:04Z. https://en.liberapay.com/about/faq.
- Β§"How is Liberapay funded? Are there fees?". https://en.liberapay.com/about/faq#how-funded
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[β¦] the service is funded by the donations to its own account [β¦]
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[β¦] there are payment processing fees.
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- Β§"What are the payment processing fees?". https://en.liberapay.com/about/faq#fees.
The fees vary by payment processor, payment method, countries and currencies. In the last year, the average fee percentages have been 3.1% for the payments processed by Stripe and 5.1% for the payments processed by PayPal.
- Β§"How is Liberapay funded? Are there fees?". https://en.liberapay.com/about/faq#how-funded
- "Liberapay". Liberapay. Accessed: 2025-01-30T05:10Z. https://en.liberapay.com/Liberapay/.
Whewee tesseract is fancy lewking! Here's to hoping you have no shortfalls to cover!
From Ko-fi:
184% of $160 goal
You guys rock. That alone is over the 2025 budget, and liberapay is gravy on top.
Keep it up! The instance has been up for a while, so there are a lot of uncompensated expenses.
Between both, and keeping in mind the Liberapay donors may be doing recurring contributions rather than a lump sum for the year (so may need to stop if something comes up for them), we're looking at about $1250 give or take for 2025 so far. Nice!
Edit: Did the Liberapay weekly rate x 47 weeks for remaining year, but forgot to add the Ko Fi amount. Dur.
Edit edit: Please feel free to correct me if I'm reading the Ko Fi stuff wrong.
Any chance of enabling multi-instance support on tesseract? Mods currently need accounts on multiple instances due to issues with remote accounts not federating mod actions.
Hey there, I considered this at first but my understanding with tesseract is that this would mean we'd be proxying account credentials/tokens of other instances. I'm comfortable in doing this for our own instance but it doesn't feel I'd be a responsible human to enable it for other instances. If there was a way to be more transparent to users using it for external instances I'd reconsider. I'm open to any feedback.
edit: typo
tesseract.dubvee.org allows you to connect with accounts from different instances
I know, that's what I'm using at the moment :)
Any considerations towards becoming a non profit or otherwise tax exempt entity (US: 501c3)? Some employers match donations to those (which could lead to more monies).
If you want to see what that looks like in the relevant context here (Canada), check out what lemmy.ca is doing (fedecan.ca). Would be curious if there's non-Canadian instances taking this approach too.
I assume there's at least some tax benefits/less of a tax liability to TheDude if doing this, but likely requires an additional level of support from folks too for the adminstrative aspects of that.
FYI, things will work out a bit differently since the server (and I assume TheDude as well) is located in Canada
(ββ _β ) donation inbound bip bip boop
Accepting Crypto donation would help me a lot.
Donated :)
Thank you so much for running this server.
Thanks for your hardwork!
Hi,
What service would you prefer I use to donate? Either one of those have lower fees for you?
Scroll down this thread, a couple people already gave some info on this.
Long story short, Liberapay doesn't take any cut of the donations, as they are entirely funded by donations themselves. Ko-fi has some very small platform fees. Not a very big difference but Liberapay should be slightly more cost efficient, especially for a recurring donation.
Done! Keep up the good work and thank you :)
Not that it matters a ton, but it's kinda hard to tell if your at or under your goal between the two platforms.
If we were shy one month would be cool to know so can pitch in a little more to make up the difference...ect
I'd also appreciate an official update of this at some point (I'd be fine with end of Feb for the first update). What I have right now is some napkin math, as someone who sucks at math:
Ko-Fi: About $401.60 at the time of this post ($160 x 2.51)
Librepay - I made an assumption based on remaining weeks in 2025 last time, but idk if that's actually how it works, so I'm changing it to a full calendar 52 weeks here (if someone has a source on how librepay comes to the per week figure, let me know, because I do know it takes lump sums and divides it to add to a weekly value): 28.66 x 52 = $1490.32
Assuming this is all 100% accurate, puts current total at $1891.92, about 55% of the proposed 2025 budget.
Please do not take this as gospel - I think I'm in the right ballpark but that Librepay per week thing is throwing me for loop. I think Ko Fi is more straight forward and the $160 is not a per week goal thing
Would you consider moving away from Proton, due to all their recent bullshit?