Just an FYI in case you feel like throwing me a few bucks to offset server costs every month or whatever.

  • hrimfaxi_workEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    Thanks for being a smooth landing for us from the other side.

  • TimmyEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    A good portion of LiberaPay was written in a coffee shop in NE Ohio

  • SaintLunaticEnglish
    111·
    2 years ago

    New to Lemmy in general, but I saw on other lemmy instances server owners provided monthly updates to their server costs and had transparency of exactly how much money has been donated that month, how much money is set aside in total, and the monthly server costs. I love this and think its great if that was done here

    Also, is there any thought on updating the specs of the server when more users join and traffic increases?

    • androogee (they/she)English
      5·
      2 years ago

      A lot of that chatter is happening over on the midwest.social Matrix server. There has been a lot of database talk that’s been way over my head haha.

      At least 2 hardware upgrades have happened in the last couple days iirc.

      When I asked about server costs earlier, the owner told me:

      I get like $9/week so yeah I’m good

      I think it’s at $28 a month now with the upgrades

      • SaintLunaticEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Awesome I’ll have to check out the matrix server if I can. I love seeing and talking about that kind of stuff

  • bquintbEnglish
    93·
    2 years ago

    Done! However, I would prefer to make small donations in bitcoin (BTC). That way you get it all, and I’m not making a bank rich. Plz update me if you get a BTC address. Thanks!

    • ArindrewEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I’m all for bitcoin, but how are you making a bank rich by transferring money to someone?

      • bquintbEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        The cc company takes a cut of the donation which takes away from the owner who’s running the server. I just meant I’d rather not deal with the bank/institution if there’s an option not to.

        • ArindrewEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Oooh that makes sense. I was thinking more along the lines of an ACH transfer, or paypal or venmo or something like that.

      • ramenbellicEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Why in Germany and not somewhere more geographically central to most users?

  • BobEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    What’s the financial situation like? I can shuffle around my donation money, but I’d rather not if this place is currently in the black.

    • seahorse [Ohio]OPMAEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Yeah it’s not a huge amount of money we’re spending on the server right now. If you want to donate then I suggest you put some towards the Lemmy devs.

    • MrFrobozz [Iowa]English
      3·
      2 years ago

      Never mind. I found it. But you got to be on the main page to see the right sidebar.