cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1239521

Reddit used to have something similar to health bar showing how much “gold” was bought to support the website. but later on out of greed they started using it as a paywall.

We can have a health bar that doesnt paywall ANY features and very transparently displays funds raised\used for a server. It can be used to display how much funds its being supported, how much server costs are, salaries for open source maintainers, mods, etc.

  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
    12·
    1 year ago

    Its definitely something that can be added by the side of the instances, not in general in the main Lemmy branch.

    • NXL@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      People use third party apps and wont see it in the side bar. Besides having it part of the code will make it easy for each server to easily implement it and it can be automated in the future.