Hey folks!

I’m writing this because funding for the Lemmy project has dropped to critical levels, which could seriously impact its future development.

Thanks to the generous support of our lemm.ee community, our server infrastructure costs are covered, and we even have a few months of runway. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed - lemm.ee wouldn’t exist without your help.

However, infrastructure alone isn’t enough. Our servers run Lemmy software, and without ongoing development, the platform cannot grow or even be maintained.

Lemmy is an open-source project with many contributors, but the vast majority of development work has been carried out by a small group of core maintainers. A few maintainers work full-time on the project, relying solely on donations and occasional grants to support themselves.

I’ve seen Lemmy development up close, and the maintainers have consistently gone above and beyond what I consider the standard for small open-source teams - they are constantly writing code, mentoring contributors, and keeping everything running. Their work is essential, and without continued support, it cannot be sustained.

If you value Lemmy, please consider supporting its maintainers directly. Every bit helps.

Please check out this post for more details about how to support the maintainers: https://lemm.ee/post/63034576

Thank you for reading, I hope you have a great weekend!

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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      4 days ago

      Ok, then where is the lie? All you have to do is show us. I am quite ok to reply to these for a long time myself, as it is nice and sunny out and I don’t need to spend “hours of my life” to do it. Also I would like to point out that what you call “pointless banter” it the core purpose of Lemmy.

        • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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          4 days ago

          Did you just link to the very comment chain this reply is part of? Why? What does this even mean, is this some meta joke?

            • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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              16 hours ago

              Hey, don’t mean to be an ass but normally arguments need two sides. The behaviour of one of the admins of hexbear being so abrasive does have a lot to do with the reluctance to fund Lemmy by many here. This is (if you go way to the top of this chain) about the experience of a user with .ml and what follows is important to the conversation of the longevity of lemmy.