Going to be completely honest and say I’m still learning how this works. My question is in regards to being user funded. I want to help but don’t have any idea how much it costs to keep this thing running. What is a reasonable monthly donation amount to assist?
Hi fellow newb :) I don’t want to speak for the owner of this site or any other users, but it could be that some people might be hesitant to suggest an amount so as not to make it seem like they’re soliciting. I’m sure the person/people running this site are incurring costs for cloud computing resources and bandwidth as well as spending a lot of their own personal time for our benefit. I think the best approach for non-suggested donations is to give what you can afford and what you judge to be reasonable for the value you get out of it. For me, a site like this gives me a lot of value in terms of connection, entertainment, and just overall good to society, and I figured that’s easily worth at least the same $10 a month I give to Amazon, though I just did $100 one-time instead of recurring monthly for now. At the end of the day I think the best approach is giving what you personally feel is appropriate and what you can afford and trusting that you’re part of a community where everyone does their part and we all get to benefit together. I think that’s the great part of this social media model. I love the idea of paying for a collective service that many people use instead of sacrificing my personal data to huge corporations just to take part in a public forum. If someone official tells you otherwise though, just ignore my idealistic bullsh*t :)
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The current estimate on the admin’s Ko-fi page is €1200 for the rest of the year but I’m not sure if that was updated after the recent hardware upgrades and the latest new user influx.
Even $1 a month would more than cover the cost of your usage for the month so I imagine whatever you want to donate monthly is reasonable.
The admin here mentioned operating costs in the upgrade post. It’s stickied and you should see it top of the front page. The best thing to do is set up a monthly recurring donation since it gives our admin an idea of how much money he can expect to see each month and what kind of budget he has for future upgrades. Just set something up based on what you can afford and what you feel the service is worth to you, https://ko-fi.com/sunaurus
Someone help out our boy @TourWillem
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Perhaps a feature like Reddit gold would be helpful? I don’t know how donations would be distributed across all the servers though…
