the monthly active users count didn’t really seen such a drastic drop, seem like something disappointed lemmy most devoted supporters , i didn’t notice a drop so big in such a short amount of time. there was also an increase in users after the initial surge of users in july due to the API drama. so i think the cooling down is over.
It’s good to see enhancement in moderations tools , there was a lot of feedback on that so i am happy this is being worked on.
With that said donations seem at a all time low (3,524), lower then when the new website started reporting donations ($3,962). on june 2 it was €4,010 , could the lemmy.ml censorship drama be related to this? maybe there is a way to mitigate this event?
Any plans to implement “multireddits”? it’s currently the issue with the most “thumbs up” on github.
I would like to have “multifeeds” for topics i find more “important”, cs career advice and information, open source, etc.
This is especially useful because activity seemed to be spread out among a lot of instances and communities.
There was an AMA in r/linux and r/opensource about three years ago, I think we should do new ones at some point.
Update on lemmy finances (not including cryptocurrencies)
patreon: $1,591/month
liberapay: $374.22 per week (about 1609 per month)
open collective: $2082 (29/6/2023 -> 29/7/2023)
Assuming 63K active users , the per user monetization of 0.08 dollar per user (Reddit’s revenue per monthly user is roughly $1.19).
Estimated developer salary for the two main developers is about 2600$, estimated median salary for developer in the US is about 10K a month.
For comparison firefish made about 1424$ ((29/6/2023 -> 29/7/2023) with an active users count of 11868 (or 8146 if you don’t count calckey, which i think is important because they added a pop up asking for donation, but i don’t know if that is after the name change) so that gives a per user monetization of 0.11 dollar per user ( or 0.17 not counting calckey).
Corrections are welcomed.
If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development
according to my calculations you are at about 6808$ , is that enough?
Might be worth setting up some fundraising goal, for example if you want 10K a month for two devs and the result will be lower that might incentivize people to donate (patreon has that feature, iirc drew devault created software that can add up the results from various platforms) .
And don’t be afraid to ask for a salary comparable to other tech companies , you do good meaningful work and deserve every cent (even if you feel like the money is not really needed now, you might start families and those can be expensive … )
checking two subs is a hassle and lemmy is pretty small and will probably stay that way for a very long time.
Once lemmy will be big enough we can consider splitting it.
IMO the best option is to create a community called nix_and_nixos and use that.
That just seems like the t shirts seliing is over . $1,740 does not seem close to the amount equivalent to what they get in a grant. but if you have evidence they don’t need more donations i am willing to be corrected.