I wonder how many people don’t understand Lemmy and thought when they were donating to their instances it benefitted lemmy development as a whole? I see many posts about donating to your instance, but little to donating to devs. Do any instances share their donations?

youtubers/streamers have a parasocial thing going with their audience that makes the idea of donating a smaller mental step for their audience (senpai might notice me if I donate type brainworms). FOSS projects historically have really struggled with funding, unless they’re able to secure funding from an org/corporation.

For as many users as lemmy has now, its kind of astonishing how little donations we have, like less than the average youtuber / streamer with a patreon. Its more when we sum up the other platforms, but I’d really like us to be able to add more full-time devs and grow the coop.

Why look at youtubers when you can look at a open source project?, look at misskey which is very similar , it makes about 4k while having about 10k monthly active users, that’s about 0.4 dollar per user.

Lemmy has about 40k monthly active users and makes about 3962 , about 0.1 dollar per user.

If you will push the conversation rate to be as high as misskey, that should give you currently about 16K a month (40k * 0.4).

I have a few ideas about how to increase it, i can open a issue throwing some ideas, for starter (I don’t remember if i said this before) the part in the UI where people are suppose to learn lemmy wants donations (the little heart), is probably very hard to notice.

Maybe opt-in ads? It could be opt-in for both the instance and the end user

I’m not demanding it to be opt-in, just taking the assumption that you don’t want to just put ads there, and that there would be a backslash if you just put them there

Or some kind of “lemmy gold”

Do you have any sort of timeline for when 0.19 or the release candidates will become available? I only wonder because I’m eager to check out some of the new features that have been mentioned here and on Github

https://0ver.org/

Fair enough.

From an end user perspective, it feels like it’s operationally stable, though I don’t know about developmentally stable. Maybe it’s worth a 1.0 release soon. Lots of people are running it in production now.

Just adding another voice agreeing that I just want to block instance posts, not comments from their users.

If people really don’t want to see anything from an instance then they should join an instance that is bit federated with the one in question.

If blocking all users from an instance does get implemented I believe it should be separate to blocking posts as they’re very different use cases.

Completely agree. I can think of many examples of an instance whose content I don’t want on my frontpage (foreign language instances for example) but whose users I still want to interact with in communities on other instances.

but I have nothing against the users.

Absolutely, and in 12+ years of using reddit the only accounts funnily enough I’ve had to block are admin accounts, and I liken the above to users from other subreddits being able to able to interact in other subs until they either

• get banned by the sub /c/ mods

• individual users using the block function

Tarring users from instances is like using that SaferBot bullshit which I’ve never liked.

I guess

“Block communities of abc.xyz”

vs

“Block users of abc.xyz”

I also think both options would be useful

I agree with this. Instance blocking should be for that instance’s content. If you are opposed to that instance’s users’ ideology then pick servers that match what you want.