Found this: https://x.com/PenPizzaReport

He is right though, 5000 USD per month for an instance with 12k monthly active users is completely unrealistic, or it is run very inefficiently. mastodon.world is a similar size and costs much less than 2300 Euro per month (which includes numerous other instances like lemmy.world etc).

Many of these are already implemented in Lemmy, others are too controversial and wont be added (such as karma).

We are currently preparing the 1.0 release which will have lots of major new features, such as private communities, multi-communities and much more. Although 0.19 is also getting constant updates with smaller improvements, for example 0.19.11.

Can you say which mod tools Piefed has that are missing from Lemmy?

Im not familiar with Wikidata, but with enough development time it could probably also be recreated as a Fediverse project.

Oh no i’m so offended 😱😱😱

Seems like a lot of effort, and then people will still keep complaining and demand more.

And would happily donate to them if they needed it.

So you are not donating anyway? It seems to me like there is a vocal minority of users who make any type of excuse for the fact that they are unwilling to donate. Instead of being honest about that, you demand from us to make more and more changes, which will piss off other users and will likely not lead to any actual increase in donations.

So you would be fine if lemmy.ml was run exactly like it is now, but without Dessalines or me taking direct actions as admins?

join-lemmy.org has such an instance picker.

I am not a tankie and reject that label.

The donation amount has increased a lot after this call for donations. Previously it was only 1000 Euro per month for each of us. With my skills I could easily earn 8000 Euro per month or more working for a company in the United States.

Thanks for your support!

Your last posts are all missing the image links.

Dont call me tankie, its offensive.

None of the admin work on lemmy.ml is paid, its all volunteer based.

I dont want anything bad to happen to you or your family, and you have every right to live in peace in your homecountry. It is unfortunate that you have to live through that. Best of luck!

Or it never happened in the first place.

lemmy.ml hosting is only financed by donations via Opencollective. All other donations go exclusively to developer salaries.