• @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    One thing I’ve seen a lot of is comments wishing that Lemmy/Kbin had support for some sort of gilding. So it’s obviously a feature that people enjoyed using which means Reddit just has to enshittify it. This is the way.

      • falsem
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        21 year ago

        That was the original pitch for gold on Reddit.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Absolutely! Server donations are good for a single instance but I think a service that allows users to purchase gold/awards and awards the particular instance (with funds) that they get used on would help fund the Fediverse as a whole. I imagine implementing something like that would not be simple but anything is better than injecting ads.

          • HipPriest
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            51 year ago

            I think it should be totally anonymous though because otherwise you go down the road of users with special avatars and good knows what

        • thanevim
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          implementing something like that would not be simple

          Especially with the idea that an instance a user calls home/registered on would have to be ok with allowing a donation link to go to the instance that the user you’re “gilding” is on

          • density
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            11 year ago

            let’s inventing banking again! the bitcoin people are having so much fun doing that.

      • tjhart85
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        41 year ago

        100%, but the Federated nature would make this difficult, I’d imagine.

        I’d love a way to simultaneously:

        • show someone I appreciate their comment

        • Help support an instance

        • Help support KBin development

        But, outside of crypto, I don’t see an easy way to make that happen and doing it through crypto would bring out the crypto bros and mega-anti crypto joe’s in about equal numbers, which would suck (plus, who’s to say that an instance admin even wants to deal with crypto to collect a few bucks).

      • kunic
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        51 year ago

        Precisely. They were a fun thing to give out, and directly helped to pay for server time. I even liked how Reddit would tell you how much server time your awards gave to Reddit (which I think they’ve removed?).

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        Kbin already has this covered. We can pay monthly to keep servers running via

        Patreon and Liberapay.

        @Ernest has transferred the existing Buy Me A Coffee money over to the server fund and from this point on we really can buy him a beer via Buy Me A Coffee which is cool!

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Do not imagine for an instant that if Lemmy/Kbin becomes like Reddit and embraces enshitification that the community will not walk again.

        • neshient
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          21 year ago

          any particular reason why there are 2 monthly payment options?

          • livus
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            31 year ago

            I’m not Ernest but my guess is it gives us greater flexibility?

            Like, some of us are already active on one or the other of those platforms, plus between them there are lots of different options for amount. I’d never heard of Liberapay but I like how it’s a non-profit.

          • density
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            51 year ago

            Well there are 49 subscribed people on patreon totaling $170/month. Lots of people probably already have accounts set up which makes it a very low threshold to join.

            Meanwhile on librepay, arguably more philosophically suitable, there are 11 subscribers totaling $13/month.

            Man, considering how many people I have seen saying how great it is to be able to pay, and asserting they are making donations, those are very low numbers.

            • neshient
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              41 year ago

              Could be because it is less circulated. I had seen the coffee option previously but didn’t realise the other 2 options had been setup until I came across this comment.

            • livus
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              21 year ago

              I think @neshient is likely to be right. IIRC something like 800 people have been donating via Buy Me A Coffee.