I don't agree (I donate), first it's the same admin for both, second, as I understand it, they had to pull a bit from mastodon donations that were already established to have this lemmy server up and running, otherwise we wouldn't have it because lemmy donations alone weren't enough.

I wouldn't mind giving maston something back for what we took, and I personally don't mind at all having both together since its the same admin, and basically the same "fediverse", opencollective is extremely transparent in accounting money info, and a bigger pool of people donating can make sure both services can run well.

Not to mention that some people use both, that would force them to make 2 different donations.

I don't agree, as both are funded by the same group.

If anything, the donation page should be renamed from mastodon.world to something like "The .world servers" (or something more appropriate).

I disconcur, because it's the same dude, and I'm supporting his efforts. Lemmy.world is not a corporate entity separate from mastadon.world. These are things he hosts as a hobby.

I think it would be good for analytics, at least. Understanding where the funds are coming from may be useful.

I think the ideal solution would be for there to be some way to specify whether the donation ought to be specifically for Lemmy.world, specifically for mastodon.world, or be fungible for both.

Some people here don’t necessarily use mastodon.world or vice versa. And some do. Or maybe some don’t care.

Whether specifying such options is feasible… I’m not sure. But it would be nice.

I don’t care either way, I think Ruud is the dude and so I tossed him a couple bucks