Is there any way for me donate to those hosting lemmygrad? I want to show my thanks for hosting such a nice community

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  • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.ml
    111·
    1 year ago

    I think giving money to ProleWiki is a better option since I think Lemmygrad is doing okay and ProleWiki is not like it’s going to disappear but needs the money better, I think.

    • ImOnADiet [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      While it won’t ever hurt to give it more, Prolewiki has enough of a balance saved up (like 2 years worth of operating costs) that it was able to spend money on like a social media advisor or something like that

        • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
          31·
          1 year ago

          Oh I’ve not heard of that kind of thing. Is it good? Does it help to put out e.g. tweets at the most visible time of day, etc? Sounds like a good use of funds if it helps expand your reach. Big corps spend millions on this kind of thing, so anything to level the playing field.

          • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
            61·
            1 year ago

            yeah this one is called buffer and it’s super barebones (hence the cheap price), but it does the job. We decided to get it after the viral thread about Yeonmi Park since we doubled our followers from that. It doesn’t do fancy stuff like pick the right times like hootsuite does, you mostly just get access to a scheduler so we can schedule our twitter threads for the days and times we want, and then they get published automatically. What I like about their system though is that it works like a pile that you fill up and empties itself with time, it motivates you to keep writing content and helps keep to a schedule… though I haven’t had much inspiration or ideas these past days and we’re not posting much on Twitter lol

    • Camarada Forte@lemmygrad.ml
      61·
      1 year ago

      Money wise, we are very safe, currently holding R$ 4020.71, enough to keep us running for almost 4 and a half years at current rates and prices. We keep receiving generous small but consistent donations including from editors (thanks comrade @Spanish_Commie@lemmygrad.ml!), and we currently have no use for this money, but we appreciate any donation nonetheless.

      We would appreciate donations even more if donators engaged with us, gave us suggestions on how to use the money, or became members of ProleWiki in general, but it never happens unfortunately. We are more in need of people than money currently 😄

      This only shows how much Wikipedia Foundation is just enriching a few select individuals, because if they only cared about demand like we do, they wouldn’t make a donation campaign every year. It’s just a large money funnel, because they have no need for so much donation campaigns

      Though imagine the potential it has, to pay editors for their consistent work if we reach a very consistent flow of donations and comfortable range of money, democratically electing the 5 best editors and paying them proportionally based on socially perceived excellence. Here’s hoping @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml and I get chosen. Most of our work is behind the scenes so no one would know how much time we spend discussing and promoting our project elsewhere lol. But obviously this is a very remote dream, and it’s fun to dream, as long as we recognize that we’re not even close to such conditions, but that could be a possibility.