Just came out of a discussion when someone was arguing that “if everyone here would pay $10-20 per year, the whole platform would be completely different”, but that seemed quite unrealistic to me.
What do you think?
Just came out of a discussion when someone was arguing that “if everyone here would pay $10-20 per year, the whole platform would be completely different”, but that seemed quite unrealistic to me.
What do you think?
I donated 100€ to my instance 2 years ago and probably wont donate again for a while, unless there is a huge drop in donations to my instance.
Milan who runs tchncs.de which hosts a fuckload of different great FOSS services like lemmy, peertube, pixelfed, matrix, gitlab, and many more has a great breakdown of his donations and costs over time with plots and everything. https://tchncs.de/en/donate
He is getting enough to cover expenses, but not enough to pay for upgrades or for his work hours. The donation amount required per user (if everyone donated) to cover everything is around 0.30€/month. This is calculated with a rough (probably under) estimated user count and a sysadmin hourly rate of 60€. To cover just the hosting expenses its less than 0.10€/month
These numbers should get even better when scaling up to more users and even at this scale the full coverage would be just 3.60€/year/user. If you are just hosting one service that you can optimize the shit out of, all this should become much cheaper too.
But yeah realistically only something like 1-2% of users will donate anything that means the people that do donate have to give much more to make up for the ones that dont. This is fine tho because not everyone has money to give.
This is not a good goal to have anyways lol
Thank you for your comment. Indeed, transparency definitely helps