Calling for donations! We’re running Lemmy.World for you to use for free, however the running costs aren’t for free… If you appreciate our services and are willing and able to help out paying the bills, please consider a donation on one of these platforms:

The most recent blog post with financial information is from September as follows:

https://blog.mastodon.world/september-2025-updates-for-the-worlds-and-call-for-donations

  • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 hours ago

    I plan on donating 40$ when I can, I am a broke pos lol. But my last post here was bringing up how there should be a few sponsors and having user based services that can be shown via a top banner and only the sites that users gravitate towards while also keeping the site open source.

    I’m not saying that you should take in government sponsors like reddit did but there’s a good middle ground to where you can have some sponsors that the users gravitate towards, that’s why i suggested tuxedo computers, graphene and maybe even a third party store that’s known for selling google pixels.

    I’m not against the donation based open source ran motto, in fact every single time I’ve ever thought about running an online store with shop, I’d have a paypal donation box to help support the site.

    I just saw what one open source user based site did to combat some of their issues while still taking in user donations and thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to emulate what they did but for this site.

    The example I gave that pulled this off when they were having some struggles rather than solely relying on user donations was Future4200.com an open-source cannabis extraction forum that has expanded towards botanical extraction of medicinal herbs. Anyway, they use the discourse layout and they were facing an issue with the site and refuses to take in corporate advertising and most everyone there is on board with the graphene scene and all that good stuff.

    example:

  • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    Hi admins! Could we get updated financial info for this year? Are the costs still the same? There was a tax bill last year, is there one this year? Did you ever find an accountant? As a small point of order, it’s better to have all of the financial info up to date before asking for more money.

    I setup a monthly reoccurring bank transfer last year, but I’d like to see current financial information to know if I need to adjust my transfer amount.

    • Isaac (ieh)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I’m ashamed to say that I hadn’t noticed the year, only the month, on the blog post. One of my fellow admins pointed it out, but… that’s the most recent we have, so I’ve let it stand. lol. D’oh. It may be a little bit before someone can update that, but I’m adding some links to a few specific comments in this thread for tracking, so hopefully I can poke you when there is an update :)

      (And I’ve only been here a couple of months as an admin, so I only know some rough numbers - I think the costs are generally not that different, but I can’t swear to anything)

    • Isaac (ieh)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      3 days ago

      Thank you <3

      And to everyone else as I won’t reply to everyone so as not to spam up the thread :)

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
    38·
    3 days ago

    Also, we had some unexpected extra costs (over 1000,–) when we had to pay taxes for the foundation (strange, for a non-profit…). I’ll see if we can get an accountant to check this, but also accountants are costly…

    Ouch

    Do you have any non-profit support organizations, local to where you have your accounts, that might be able to help for cheap or pro-bono?

    Thank you for all the work you do!

    • Ruud@lemmy.worldM
      3·
      1 day ago

      I have now asked the accountant I also use for my business, to help out with the foundation.

    • Isaac (ieh)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I know that we look for nonprofit-help everywhere we can, but I don’t have a specific answer for you at this time, but I’ve marked this to see if we can answer you later, at least :)

  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
    27·
    3 days ago

    5$ a month. I was just thinking about how I’d never pay for any kind of reddit anything. But this doesn’t feel all hurty in my soul. Ty for making a space that’s not hyper capitalist.

    • Isaac (ieh)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Thank you very much! I started donating before I became an admin, so I can say that I know the feeling - this is the only site I currently donate to. For now. :)

  • Shindo66@lemmy.world
    28·
    3 days ago

    Thank you for doing a patreon! Signed up for $2 a month, its not much, but if I know me, ill never cancel it. Its so easy everybody, go sign up for a couple bucks a month!

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
      3·
      23 hours ago

      From what I know, non-profits can better calculate with lower but regular payments. I make a monthly payment of two Euro which isn’t the world but it’s steady, ends up a similar amount per year as you, and I won’t cancel this anytime soon.

      • Isaac (ieh)@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Thank you!

        I think if everyone did recurring we might be able to post a request like this less than twice a year, which I think isn’t too much, but it definitely is needed to help remind the one-time donators to consider donating again. But I’d definitely say it is all appreciated, though recurring does mean people will tend to set it and forget it. lol. That’s why mine is a monthly, for sure :)

  • Joelk111@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    What’s a suggested donation for an average user? I currently have €1/mo set up via LiberaPay.

    • Isaac (ieh)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I don’t think there’s a suggested amount. I can tell you that €1/mo helps, for sure. I personally donate $8/mo as it’s the level I feel comfortable with. Not to encourage you to increase yours - scattered around this thread you can see a number of differing amounts, and they are all appreciated. :)

  • Nickelalloy@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    Thought about this some days ago that I should donate more to organisations that does good, now this comes up and I instantly clixk the links, turns out I am already a monthly donor!