An overdue blog post about the finances and other news from the .world

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    1 year ago

    I’m actually surprised how low the server costs are. Granted, the userbase is not that large, but it makes me optimistic that Lemmy.world survives long-time.

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    1 year ago

    Legendary. Didn’t realize the Lemmy world team was also running Mastodon and Firefish instances. Much love for your determined support!

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Non profit foundation is awesome to see. It will probably the general structure of all significant long lasting institutions on the Fedi.

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    1 year ago

    I might be out of the loop so I’m genuinely curious - what’s wrong with Cloudflare?

    The post mentions several times that it isn’t popular and that an alternative will be found.

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      It’s the fear of centralization, I believe (correct me if I’m wrong!).

      Seeing that the whole point of federation is to decentralize the web, putting everything under the Cloudflare umbrella goes against this philosophy.

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        The federation philosophy is not going to hold up when users centralize themselves on an instance, requiring that instance to seek out things like Cloudflare just to bare the weight.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe it’s about Cloudflare becoming a single point of failure for large parts of the internet?

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    1 year ago

    Y’all are wonderful. Thanks for your dedicated effort.

    I also appreciated your shout-out to other instances that are active cooperating with .world to make Lemmy a better place. Teamwork makes the dream work.

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    The idea of a non-profit holding sounds great, but what about collateral damage if shit really hit the fan? Would it not be smarter to have a separate entity for each platform? They could all have essentially the same statutes, boards, directors etc. etc., so in case if one really got under heavy fire, the others wouldn’t be affected? I know it means more admin work and probably also requires some governing policies with regards to the funding distribution, but might be cleaner in the end.

    • Obinice@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is absolutely the correct thing to do. Do not place all your eggs in one legal basket.

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        1 year ago

        Won’t that be an administrative nightmare though? N times the number of income tax declarations etc?

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    1 year ago

    i’m thrilled to see that the donations are letting this be somewhat self sustaining. obviously a lot of unpaid volunteering going into this so not quite a self sustaining non profit, but it’s got all the promising signs

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    1 year ago

    Thank you for all the work you guys do! Glad to see server expenses are coming in under budget of the donations!

  • sturlabragason@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Great work! Although I’m far too busy with other stuff I’d love to be able to contribute some Terraform when and where I can. Maybe you could put some stuff in a public repo so we might contribute?

    • jelloeater - Ops Mgr@lemmy.worldM
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      1 year ago

      The stuff in our repo is quite sensitive, so probably won’t ever be public. If your interested in helping. Feel free to fill out a application. It’s in the side bar on the home page. 😎

  • Nine@lemmy.world
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    Love it! I’m happy to keep supporting this endeavor and community.

    So from one sysadmin to another great job! Keep it up and I can’t wait to see where this goes! 🍻