Hi all, I’m relatively new to this instance but reading through the instance docs I found:
Donations are currently made using snowe’s github sponsors page. If you get another place to donate that is not this it is fake and should be reported to us.
Going to the sponsor page we see the following goal:
@snowe2010’s goal is to earn $200 per month
pay for our 📫 SendGrid Account: $20 a month 💻 Vultr VPS for prod and beta sites: Prod is $115-130 a month, beta is $6-10 a month 👩🏼 Paying our admins and devops any amount ◀️ Upgrade tailscale membership: $6-? dollars a month (depends on number of users) Add in better server infrastructure including paid account for Pulsetic and Graphana. Add in better server backups, and be able to expand the team so that it’s not so small.
Currently only 30% of the goal to break-even is being met. Please consider setting up a sponsorship, even if it just $1. Decentralized platforms are great but they still have real costs behind the scenes.
Note: I’m not affiliated with the admin team, just sharing something I noticed.
If you’re thinking of something like $1-2/month, also consider doing a 30 dollar 1 time thing (it saves on transaction fees) and you basically just paid for 2-3 years of donations.
From what i can tell there are no transaction fees for sponsorships from personal accounts, and organizations pay 6% (or 3% if invoicing). (Source)
Is there something else I’m not seeing?
Possibly payment processing fees. Some banks/payment institutions charge you for a payment.