I imagine there’s excitement for the increase of activity but worries about the potential toxic side of Reddit coming along too.

I’d especially be interested in the Lemmy devs’ opinions.

  • cecirdr@lemmy.ml
    37·
    2 years ago

    I’m new here from Reddit. I was a former Digg user. Over the past few years, Reddit has gotten swamped with spam and low quality content. I was most at home there on the niche subreddits that were still earnest and not spammy. I hope things stay that way over here.

    I’ve made a small donation to help Lemmy grow. It’s not much, but scaling up to handle the escapees is a big deal. Having the money to grow and build robust processes to keep content thoughtful and helpful is important. While I love the funny posts and memes sometimes on reddit, it’s really infested the popular subreddits to the point of being excessive. Ergo, I tend to hang out in smaller spaces where the dialog is more “straight up”.

      • cecirdr@lemmy.ml
        11·
        2 years ago

        I went here because I could do a one time donation. I plan to see how things go and eventually set up a recurring one though.

        https://opencollective.com/lemmy

        I found it on the main lemmy page where you sign up for a server. It probably needs to be posted in more places, like on the communities pages. (there’s a patreon site too where you can donate)

        • tmpod@lemmy.ptM
          2·
          2 years ago

          On liberapay you can also donate any custom amount just once. It will simply calculate it as “$x/week”, iirc.

      • Link@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        Here is their donation page with all three currently supported options.

        I don’t know much about Open Collective, but LiberaPay does not take a cut (only the fees of the payment processors) so I would discourage you to choose Patreon.

        Edit: Actually there are more options listed since you can also donate crypto.