Donations and financial status
Donations and financial status
We are currently the 2nd largest instance in terms of monthly active users. This brings a financial burden and we would appreciate your help about it.
If you want to donate, here's donation platforms we use:
- Throne.com: No need to register. I tried and received payment. So it works.
- Ethereum: 0x4e4af5dc2f86235ac496542c2a1c00f3c4de40c6
- Monero: 48VYVWPKk65KiDiBaLhvSggKSbDQ4vtdq6HHbDa2HxWLiBWVcZ65gTgMBu7UeSUcm4dasAMMaKHnJNJSgRKi7Q5R5HN9adg
- Trocador.app (multiple cryptocurrencies)
Financial status
Here is what we have and what we spent.
| date | description | fiat | ETH | XMR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-01 | + donation | $170 (+$10) | 0.0097 ETH | 1.0256 XMR |
| 2024-10-25 | - load balance server | $160 | 0.0097 ETH | 1.0256 XMR (-0.0770 XMR) |
| 2024-10-17 | + donation | $160 (+$10) | 0.0097 ETH | 1.1026 XMR |
| 2024-10-15 | + donation | $150 | 0.0097 ETH (+0.0073 ETH) | 1.1026 XMR |
| 2024-10-14 | - main server | $150 (-$75) | 0.002 ETH | 1.1026 XMR |
| 2024-10-12 | - media storage | $225 (-$18) | 0.002 ETH | 1.1026 XMR |
| 2024-09-24 | - load balance servers | $243 | 0.002 ETH | 1.1026 XMR (-0.1270 XMR) |
| 2024-09-14 | - main server | $243 (-$75) | 0.002 ETH | 1.2296 XMR |
| 2024-09-12 | - media storage | $318 (-$17) | 0.002 ETH | 1.2296 XMR |
| 2024-08-30 | + donation | $335 | 0.002 ETH | 1.2296 XMR (+0.0318 XMR) |
| 2024-08-26 | - load balance server | $335 | 0.002 ETH | 1.1577 XMR (-0.1153 XMR) |
| 2024-08-16 | + donations (one from July 29) | $335 (+$20) | 0.002 ETH | 1.2731 XMR |
| 2024-08-14 | - main server | $315 (-$75) | 0.002 ETH | 1.2731 XMR |
| 2024-08-12 | - media storage | $390 (-$15) | 0.002 ETH | 1.2731 XMR |
| 2024-07-26 | + donation | $405 (+$5) | 0.002 ETH | 1.2731 XMR |
| 2024-07-26 | + donation | $400 (+$20) | 0.002 ETH | 1.2731 XMR |
| 2024-07-26 | + donation | $380 (+$50) | 0.002 ETH | 1.2731 XMR |
| 2024-07-25 | - load balance server | $330 | 0.002 ETH | 1.2731 XMR (-0.0729 XMR) |
| 2024-07-14 | - main server | $330 (-$75) | 0.002 ETH | 1.3460 XMR |
| 2024-07-12 | - media storage | $405 (-$25) | 0.002 ETH | 1.3460 XMR |
| 2024-06-24 | - load balance server | $430 | 0.002 ETH | 1.3460 XMR (-0.0731 XMR) |
| 2024-06-14 | - main server | $430 (-$75) | 0.002 ETH | 1.4192 XMR |
| 2024-06-13 | + donation | $505 (+$20) | 0.002 ETH | 1.4192 XMR |
| 2024-06-12 | - media storage | $485 (-$25) | 0.002 ETH | 1.4192 XMR |
| 2024-06-06 | + donation | $510 (+$20) | 0.002 ETH | 1.4192 XMR |
| 2024-06-04 | / coin to fiat | $490 (+$473) | 0.002 ETH (-0.125 ETH) | 1.4192 XMR |
| 2024-05-22 | - load balance server | $17 | 0.1276 ETH | 1.4192 XMR (-0.0861 XMR) |
| 2024-05-22 | + donation | $17 | 0.1276 ETH | 1.5050 XMR (+0.1442 XMR) |
| 2024-05-21 | + donation | $17 | 0.1276 ETH | 1.3611 XMR (+1 XMR) |
| 2024-05-17 | + donation | $17 | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3611 XMR (+042069 XMR 🚬) |
| 2024-05-17 | + donation | $17 (+$20) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR |
| 2024-05-15 | - main server | -$3 (-$75) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR |
| 2024-05-13 | - media storage | $72 (-$24) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR |
| 2024-04-28 | + donation | $96 (+$50) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR |
| 2024-04-26 | + donation | $46 (+$20) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR |
| 2024-04-24 | - load balance server | $26 | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR (-0.0993 XMR) |
| 2024-04-21 | + donation | $26 (+$50) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.4184 XMR |
| 2024-04-15 | - main server | -$24 (-$65) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.4184 XMR |
| 2024-04-10 | - media storage | $41 (-$19) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.4184 XMR |
| 2024-04-09 | + donation | $60 | 0.1276 ETH (+0.06969 ETH 🙃) | 0.4184 XMR |
| 2024-04-01 | + donations | $60 (+$25) | 0.0579 ETH | 0.4184 XMR (+0.1827 XMR) |
| 2024-03-30 | - load balance server | $35 | 0.0579 ETH | 0.2357 XMR (-0.0890 XMR) |
| 2024-03-04 | + donation | $35 | 0.0579 ETH | 0.3247 XMR (+0.0420 XMR) |
| 2024-03-02 | - main server | $35 (-$65) | 0.0579 ETH | 0.2827 XMR |
| 2024-02-28 | + donation | $100 | 0.0579 ETH (+0.0073 ETH) | 0.2827 XMR |
| 2024-02-27 | - load balance server | $100 | 0.0506 ETH | 0.2827 XMR (-0.1516 XMR) |
| 2024-02-01 | - new server and email provider | $100 (-$75) | 0.0506 ETH | 0.3738 XMR |
| 2024-02-01 | / approximate initial value | $175 | 0.0506 ETH | 0.3738 XMR |
A little note about about this financial status report
- Throne
- it is fiat type and I will only add money here when I withdraw it.
- Cryptocurrencies
- I will truncate numbers to 4 decimal places.
- It may not always be up to date. You can check up to date ETH balance by clicking to it.
- No matter which coin you send from Trocador, the money will merge into Monero.
I'll donate in the morning!
Hello, team at LemmyNSFW,
I'm delighted to see your instance growing and I completely support the idea of donating to ensure the longevity and quality of this platform. Your hard work in maintaining and developing this instance is very much appreciated.
However, I'd like to bring up the idea of financial transparency within our community. Have you considered using a platform like Open Collective for your donation system? It has been adopted by other instances, including Lemmy.world. You can see an example of how they use it here: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld
In my opinion, Lemmy.world is a shining example of how a Lemmy instance should operate financially. They provide transparency about their finances, which has greatly contributed to building trust with their users and the platform as a whole.
Considering we're part of an open-source, decentralized platform, I believe this level of transparency is paramount. It not only helps in building trust but also encourages more users to donate, knowing exactly how their contributions will be utilized.
Moreover, seeing big instances openly donating back to the source code developers could set a wonderful precedent. This act of giving back to those who helped create the foundation of our platform would be a tremendous demonstration of gratitude and community spirit.
Again, I am wholeheartedly in support of donating to this community, and I hope my suggestion will be taken into consideration. Keep up the fantastic work!
Going to have to agree that something like this would be good. Lets people see all in one place where we stand and what is needed.
Thank you for your opinion! I would like to do this too but we don't use single payment method. Also does Open Collective approve payments or should we trust the admin for this? And do admins attach bills somewhere?
Open collective (of which I have zero affiliation) is working on taking cryptocurrency payments. Last I checked it was in beta.
You can give evidence where you feel it would be beneficial. But yeh. You could always find work arounds.
If it’s something you genuinely want to explore, I’m happy to volunteer some of my time to help you with implementing and managing that.
The key thing I’d like to see in all instances, not just yours, is transparency in income, plus some sort of transparency as to how much that may be given back to the community and the source code development.
Honestly. What’s done with the rest, I care very little.
Out of curiosity how much storage are you using either total or on average with this instance? I feel like with the amount of media being uploaded it's likely slightly larger than others.
It was about 30GB when I checked two days ago.
Edit: it's 33 now.
Could consider utilising storage buckets for this - Backblaze B2 is $0.005 per GB/month and has partnerships with Cloudflare etc. Should reduce your costs pretty well.
I support you my friend both monetarily and conceptually.
You're one of the people I've seen from the very beginning. Thank you for your support!
I set up a Patreon subscription. I am a DevOps Engineer. If you ever need to move to a more distributed setup let me know.
Thank you for your support! But to keep costs low, we had to keep for one server for now. But you're in my mind if needed :)
I don't know if you already run on docker, but you could run on docker in order to simulate a distributed setup and be able to move the various pieces in and out as needed, also portainer and traefik are very nice for this, if you create a common network for all containers with a bit of docker compose magic you have a plug and play kind of setup
If u need it I have a HomeLab where I can host an instance of it
Same. I'm happy to answer any questions or assist with the infra. This is basically what us idiots DevOps/SRE do on a daily basis: cut costs while improving performance and reliability.
An instance run so good that it caused me to start using my porn account as main account deserves some love and support. Bought a sponsor package on throne.
Thank you for your support buddy 🙏
I joined this instance for the NSFW, but at the moment it is the best performing instance I am on, so I am subscribing to all my tech communities through here as well. In other words, my NSFW account is now my main account. LOL. Going to Patreon for sure.
EDIT: I signed up for $5/month. Keep up the good work!
PS: Would you mind sharing your docker-compose file? I want to deploy a lemmy instance on GCP to help strengthen the network.
Thank you for your support! But I really didn't changed the compose file. I just used default ansible setup for simplicity.
Just a headsup if you're trying to get on Open Collective, it looks like that might be another patreon scenario:
Yeah I checked TOS too. I thought it's about posts shared on campaign page. Also Open Collective Europe didn't reject us. But you are right. I'll contact about this to Open Collective and fiscal host.
🫡 good idea.
Thank you so much for hosting this instance. I appreciate it and will help with a small contribution of a few dollars per month from now own. ❤️
Thank you! Every dollar is important and you can be sure that we will use every single dollar for this instance.
I would gladly send Monero [XMR] if you had the option.
Hmm. Let me check MetaMask for it.
Nope, MetaMask only supports Ethereum or derivates. I've used MyMonero for it.
Would it be possible to set up Liberapay as a payment method? I don't know their policy on NSFW-related projects, but I really enjoy it as a payment option since they don't take anything off what's donated, give many different donation options, and is run by a non-profit that made the site's code open-source.
It is done. Via github if that is okay.
Thank you! Github is the best among these options
Thank you for doing this in the first place! Do you maybe have PayPal? Otherwise I'll look into Patreon 😊
You're welcome! I really wish I had a PayPal account but unfortunately not :/
Just subbed on Patreon! Question, are you holding off on upgrading the instance because of the issues with the search?
Thank you! I was waiting for captcha. But I'll upgrade today.
My instance admins upgraded and enabled application while they wait for the captcha. It's not ideal, but it will help keep the bot horde at bay for a bit
Where is the link to donate?
It's removed because I'll transfer instance to someone else.
Seems like the least I can do. Thanks for setting this up.
Reddit had r4r communities, are we calling our communities L4Ls?
Didn't see a better place to ask this question.
There is almost 1000 communities, so there is a chance we have a community like that :)
Done
Thank you!
Done via GitHub, thanks for your work!
Really appreciated! Although Github works for now, we may change it in future btw.
Just saw we're down, donated on Throne to get us back in the green!
Thank you! 🙏
I donated a couple euros now.
Appreciated 🙏
With GitHub sponsorship no longer an option are there any simple payment options available?Happy to support (was supporting at $10 a month) but would rather not learn crypto to do it
Hi. We've kicked out :) I’ll share a post about it soon.
Thanks, I’ll keep an eye out
Thanks, came back to this post to see if there were updates. I just got refunded today and was very confused. I do appreciate what you are doing and think there needs to be a place for NSFW content in the fediverse, and I'm happy to contribute a little bit monthly to help make that happen. I'll look forward to your upcoming post about it.
I still don't understand crypto, but Throne appears to have worked fine. I look forward to an option with reoccurring automatic payments.
I'm trying auto recurrent donations but no luck yet :/ Still researching.
What hosting provider are you using?
I'm using Hetzner right now.
Didn’t know GitHub sponsors was a thing.
Neat.
(Also: new sponsor).
If I can make one request (not that I feel you should be in any way honored to follow it up or prioritize it):
The local blur policy/implementation is horrible.
I want to just scroll through content. Everytime I log in I must update the settings.
http://wefwef.app doesn’t even give me an option to adjust it.
We had local settings to auto expand, disable blur etc. but these settings has gone with the new update. I'm adding right now.
I'm not related to Wefwef or other apps, but you can try others like Mlem or Memmy.
Liftoff! app (beta) is my favorite for one-handed scrolling, if you gnome say’n. Double tap to zoom full screen, double tap twice to zoom to full resolution.
Test
it’s working!
I can't see any comments on this thread , I think there's something really wrong with the update
What would be good options for me if I just want to use my credit card to quickly buy whatever crypto and send it to any address I want? I did look at some sites a couple of days ago, but they were more for trading and didn't seem too great for this use case.
I never got into crypto even though I'm a huge nerd, so I have no idea which service is trustworthy and quick'n'easy to use.
I registered to throne.com, which allows direct anonymous credit card donations. If they accept us, then you can use it if you want.
Just don’t jump into a topic you don’t know if you don’t want to learn buddy. I’ll fix this.
And to be honest, I’m not a crypto expert either. I just know basics and some technical details that I’m using on IRL work.
Used throne.com - hope it works :)
Ah let's see where that throne.com deal goes then, that'd be neat.
But I honestly don't mind the learnin', I was more just soliciting for good tips for this specific use case since I figured somebody's bound to be more clued in already 😁
I know surprising amounts about the technical side of lots of cryptocurrency projects because in another life I've worked on sort-of-related things, but like the idiot I am I never bought all that many of anything and haven't "handled" them in ages.
How would I donate via Ethereum or Monero? I've avoided all crypto.
It's about your platform. For instance I'm using Binance, so I click Receive, choose type of coin, enter address, choose network (for me always default one), send.
Do you accept ETH on L2s? What about stablecoins?
I really don't know. I'm just using MetaMask for ETH. And not using stable coins because I don't know how to keep them locally, like MetaMask, MyMonero or XUMM. I really don't want to keep them on an exchange that has all my info.
Got a Zcash address?
Unfortunately, no. Currently there is only ETH, XMR and Trocador with about 70 currencies that will send the money to my unified single wallet.
This is because I added multiple cryptocurrencies before and it was a big mess. The money was split into smaller pieces across multiple currencies and wallets. As you can imagine, this is very difficult to manage.
BTW it looks like Trocador support Zcash.
Chipping in with $5/mo.
Sent some coins, thank you!
Thank you for your support!
You should add dash, ltc and a few others to your donation list. I don't hold much eth or xmr. I'd definitely send you some dash.
I will add a middleman tool to cryptos that will add support for like 15 coins. Coz I can't use that much different coins.
Damn that's impressive!
Set up a github sponsorship. Thanks for setting this up and maintaining it!
Hey i got a 404 trying to access that image, are you sure it still exists?
which image?
uhhh my bot should not have run on this post... sorry about that i found the bug that caused it and have since fixed it.
which image indeed xD
I was really surprised to see that youre using a .com-domain. That alone must be costing you a small fortune per year.