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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I get the feeling.
I put in 10€ for you, now you don’t have to feel bad :)
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The spamming troll made me realize, we don’t have any sort of posting limits? Limiting contributions to something humanly possible, like say, one every thirty seconds, would help cut down on that stuff. Maybe could base it on IP address, so multiple accounts couldn’t be used to partially get around it?
Most people would never even realize the limit is there.
we do have some limits in place, but lemmy only allows rate limits per ip, and those are counted in each backend process independently. I’m currently working on implementing better rate limits in our load balancer.
due to rate limits historically not working at all or not working properly, there are still various instances without decent limits. additionally, these rare limits only apply to local users. federated activities are not limited within lemmy. we recent added some fairly high limits to our automod to catch some of these cases and it’s been working alright so far.
Wouldn’t it be an idea to enable auto-deletion of messages after a set amount of time?
what would that have to do with this?
Would it not reduce the storage needed, and so too hosting costs? Granted I don’t know well how that works, but it was just an idea.
you could save some storage with this, but i don’t think it’s a good idea. a lot of people expect the threadiverse to have a lot more permanence than e.g. mastodon, similar to reddit. being able to find old posts/comments about a certain topic is one of the things that made reddit as useful as it used to be, especially when searching for tech related issues in my experience. old doesn’t necessarily mean obsolete, and whether this would be suitable would be highly dependent on the community. most communities are not intended to be for ephemeral content only.
Hmm, fair point. How about making it an option for communities? That they can enable/disable this permanency, with the default for new instances being ‘off’?
Could have a truthworthiness score that can increase posting limits in the backend.
Perhaps you know, but commenting anyway for those who are new and don’t, you can visit anyone’s profile and see their modlog and a vibe check. May help inform how genuine someone may be on here.
I’m trying to understand who (and where) to donate to here.
The blog post talks about various costs for the Worlds communities - the highest of which is server costs, and one line item is for “Monthly contribution to the FHF”. Then below, the donation links say “As a reminder, you can donate to FHF here”. So are those links for donating only to FHF? The Patreon link goes to “Mastodon.world (Fedihosting Foundation)”.
Some clarity here would be helpful so it’s easy for folks to understand who needs donations and where they can help with that.
The FHF is the foundation owning all instances (https://fedihosting.foundation/hosted/). So the costs are for running all the .world instances. The contribution to FHF is the costs for running the non-profit foundation itself.
The Patreon was setup when mastodon.world was the only instance… haven’t renamed it yet.
I’ve started evaluate all free (as in freedom) services to match my entertainment subscriptions (I.e. netflix) and this ended up being avg 5$/mo min wage for all free services that I use which is very reasonable expense. All things don’t even add up to 100$/mo in my case and the value much outweighs that!
Bless be the foss priests 🙏
Can we avoid payment provider middleman fees with EU bank transfers?
Awesome! Monthly recurring transfer set. 💪
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The first 4 people who click this link will get a free membership to the fedihosting foundation patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/mastodonworld/redeem/f/E235F16A97
Edit: Downvoting support for the fediverse?
Your comment has really been buried under all that spam. Didn’t think I could redeem it 16 hours later. Thanks a lot.
Yeah… on PieFed.world we can see who downvoted…
Pretty sure you can on Lemmy too as I’ve been banned from a community simply for downvoting something in it.
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You can search users or copy/paste a link for a post, comment etc.
There are also instances that just show it to all of their users
Ruud is a mod (and admin)
Let‘s gooo!
Set up a recurring donation. Lemmy and Mastodon are great and I want them to stick around.
!taneggs@lemmy.ca proudly offers support. Pikas love grass roots!
I’m really confused by what link donates to who. Can you just give us a simple link that’s like “click here to donate to lemmy.world”?
The Bunq link goes directly to the bank account of the organization running Lemmy.world, mastodon.world, and piefed.world.
And you don’t need to use bunq’s UI to make a transfer from your own bank, just the IBAN (which is revealed after clicking the bunq link)
I see your preferred donation platform is euro based, do you get good $ to eu exchange? or shoul i go patreon?
Payments are handled by Stripe or Paypal for both platforms so that doesn’t matter
Question about BUNQ: There’s this string that looks like an IBAN (
NL78 BUNQ 2108 3219 85). If I send money using a recurring bank transfer to that, will it work? Will substantial fees be incurred as a result?Yes it will work. And this way there will be no fees.
Oh, fantastic. I’ll double my monthly donation. Thanks!
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Done.
This platform needs more political and thought diversity, as of now it’s far-left only. I will donate when rational discussion happens without promoting political violence.
Fuck off Nazi scum
No “rational” discussion can occur without kicking out fascists!
They have been responsible for 80 million deaths. Rot in hell nazis.
Fuck off Nazi scum
No “rational” discussion can occur without kicking out fascists!
They have been responsible for 80 million deaths. Rot in hell nazis.
I have doubled my donation!
Did that make it go up?
Yeah, it did, I donate monthly. Are you doing your part? 🤨
