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:

• https://ko-fi.com/fhfworld - Preferred.
• https://liberapay.com/fhf
• https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld - (Either recurring or one-time donations).
• https://patreon.com/mastodonworld - (Recurring donations only)
• https://bunq.me/fhf - This is a Dutch bank account for those looking for SEPA / IBAN bank transfers

We have a blog with overview of the running costs, which is severely outdated... I will update this before the next call for donations: https://blog.mastodon.world/

Threw in a small recurring donation on Kofi. Thanks for your hard work. :D

I'd love to understand the costs associated with a project like this. Do you have a breakdown anywhere of where money goes each month?

T3 member since March 2025.

We keep a blog but it's way overdue.... but the costs didn't change much so you get an idea: https://blog.mastodon.world/

I'd love to donate since this is just a superior reddit imo

Can't donate money but are you still looking for

– Technical / infra people , for helping run all the instances and plan for the future. (We use linux/docker/terraform/ansible, so either you need to know about them, or want to learn about them).

Can't I just set up a SEPA transfer? Is NL78 BUNQ 2108 3219 85 your IBAN?

Goddamn, I thought it was cheaper! I donate already to my instance and dev but I'll throw what I can your way too.

Done!

Thank you for hosting Lemmy.World :3

Yes we are, can you contact me at info@fedihosting.foundation about this?

Yes it is, or use https://bunq.me/fhf

Just upgraded to Tier 3 for monthly donations. Thank you for all you do!

We keep a blog but it's way overdue....

Hugely understandable. It's so much rougher than people think for a small project to maintain a consistent blog. Thank you for the posts you do have!

i am trying to donate but it requires me to enter email, how to bypass this.

Monthly donor here. Appreciate you guys.

I was going to donate $5 per month, but I had second thoughts after seeing the profile picture on the donation site. I probably will still donate eventually, but I am not comfortable supporting an openly biased platform.

...I'm new. I'll probably donate. I just need to make sure censoring people for different opinions isnt as common as it originally seemed. The fact that I was already banned from one of the most popular communities isn't a good sign.

If those mods are the people that would receive the donations, then I don't think they would use it for anything good...just a better funded echo chamber.

2€/mo. Sorry it can't be more. Thank you for all you do.

Reddit never got a cent out of me.

Which picture? They all look pretty innocuous to me... Maybe I'm out of the loop on something?

Can you explain? What picture, and biased how?

Just give it a bullshit email address if you don't want a receipt.

Huh ?! tnx @ Ruud maybe add this link to the main post? this one doesn't require email etc (I used the Kofi link already).

Paypal?

Are you sure you weren't looking at some patron's profile? As far as I can tell the .world profile pics are just blue and green letters or a lemmy logo.

done thanks.

what offending picture are you even talking about? what "echo chamber"? what are you on about?

Done. OP please let me know yearly (i never do subscriptions but i'm willing to manually repeat yearly)

Just gave a €30 dono. I get way more value out of my Lemmy account than that. Thanks for all you do to provide an alternative to big tech

That's where I got the IBAN from. You link this in your sidebar but not this post.

Maybe a stupid question but how would be Ko-Fi preferable to a simple recurring SEPA transfer to anybody in the SEPA region? Bank to bank is as straightforward as it gets, never any fees,...

Done

Sure! It'll be a tuta mail address. What timezone are y'all targeting for collab?

I threw in 10 American flavored euros. Hope it helps!

OP got banned from the US news community because they made some pretty controversial statements and (from their personal PoV) questioned if MAGA cult followers exist. That's the only community on LW they got banned from, cited as being for "rage baiting / trolling", which yeah it very well could be, even with a benefit of doubt.

But that's hardly an echo chamber. It's just one community, and moderators are typically completely unaffiliated with the server and can pick and enforce their own rules, nothing stops them from making or joining another US news comm. They even boasted that blocking that comm made their feed better, so it's not like they wanted to be there either.

In the instance panel (on the right side,) it shows the following ways you can donate. Paypal isn't listed.

Their Open Collective page has useful information about their budget.

https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld#category-BUDGET

Perhaps it doesn't show everything, but it seems like it shows quite a lot of how their donated money flows.

Done. Thanks.

I also need to be reminded now and then,

Happy to pitch a tenner when reminded, you guys and Wikipedia.

It's not just superior but mostly... humane... and still much more trusted to invest your finite life time into, I believe...
There's love, empathy, and reason I feel...

::: spoiler ...not just "shadow banned" as on Reddit...
Though, I was already banned for utterly unexpected reasons at !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone and !privacy@lemmy.ml , and though these are still not Lemmy.World, there were at least appreciated reasons stated (in the Modlog), and not just "shadow banned" as on Reddit for utterly unknown reasons with no official responses with money sent into their Vault and Awards I do regret know being shadow-banned myself...
No one cares who you are there and how much you've done for tens of years; it's an empty void and sorrow...
Regardless...
:::

Thank you, heartfelt, dear Lemmy and PieFed Developers, Artists, Community... for the ineffably magnificent Marvel... Art you do...
Please stay safe, and I wish you success, prosperity, achievements to treasure, reach new horizons, stability... and peace...

Done!

Most if not all of the donation services allow you to use Paypal though. Ko-Fi does for sure.

It seems like that page might not be taking into account income from other platforms though; it estimates the annual budget as being €4,000, despite the official monthly budget (as listed on their Mastodon blog as of last September) being €1,700.

I recommend writing a log of donations. Then you can look at where you donated, when and how much, and remind yourself of where you want to send money again.

Now, I am pretty lazy. So it's just my_donations.txt, open with Vim and whip out that calculator. Should probably be a spreadsheet instead. I don't know if Calc let's me do math based on key (place of donation).
I guess I could have separate columns per key (to maintain log nature), then do subtotal per key to specific cells, then grand total from those cells.
Still begs the question of how I would do that per year.
Sperate columns each year?
Just make range selection at the end of year?
To be honest, I never actually used any spreadsheet software. I suppose there might be some logic, if so, there sure would be a way to check the date column on same row as amount.

But anyway, Vim + calculator. 👍

Done! Thanks for the reminder. $25 US sent your way.

i need some encouragement. if you were to display ads, but the only ad was to donate to get rid of the ads, i would do it.

Bring back NSFW and I will

Have stopped a subscription I don't have a use for anymore so I'll jump on your ko-fi at the end of this month as the replacement for that. Absolutely deserved, hope you get all that's needed! (Does ko-fi have reoccurring payments? Haven't used it before, and I'd like to have an automatic monthly donation)

What donation site? All the links posted here just show the mastodon.world logo, which is just a lemmy logo shaped planet on one and a speech bubble shaped planet on the others...

Can you promote this link to the body of the post instead of buried in a comment?

Any options to pay in crypto?

Is NSFW stuff blocked on here?

donated. thank you for hosting