I love the Fediverse and Lemmy. But technically, it still lags behind the big platforms in some areas. And there are many things where I believe the Fediverse will eventually be significantly better than centralized platforms, but which are still underdeveloped. Unfortunately, I can’t program myself, or at least not very well. So I’m wondering how I can best support development financially.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
    335·
    2 days ago

    Servers cost money to run, many lemmy servers have set up a way to donate for server costs.

    You can try to post about lemmy on other platforms, but be aware that that carries a risk of getting banned.

    Normally I’d also recommend supporting the devs, but fuck tankies. I plan to switch to Piefed because of that, since it’s obviously hypocritical to keep using a standard Lemmy server when you dislike the devs so much.

    • runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      I flipped to piefed about a month ago. I took 1 evening to open 1 tab with my lemmy subscriptions and 1 with piefed and manually transferred it all.

    • squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyiEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      I plan on switching to Piefed because of that.

      Same, I already did. Maybe the fediverse foundation would host a PieFed instance if there’s enough interest.

    • iatenine@piefed.socialEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      You may be surprised how seamless the switch is, you can import your Lemmy account settings

      The big drawback is a loss of mobile app selection but I’ve come to like Blorp quite a lot

      • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        Blorp dev here. Let me know if there’s anything I can do to make your PieFed experience even better! I’m launching support for PieFeds multi communities feeds very soon. Stay tuned.

        • iatenine@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Sounds good

          The big things I’d want is a longer list of Piefed instances to add and the ability to add keyword and community filters from the app without full on blocking

          The double lines on “Enter” in the comment editor so they actually appear is fantastic!

          • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Is there a specific instance that’s missing that you want to use? You can input a custom instance durning login in the search input.

            I’m not sure I understand the keyword filters without fully blocking part.

            • iatenine@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Sorry, didn’t realize the search box allowed custom domains like that. That’s perfect!

              The keyword thing I mean is similar to the “mute words/post/user” feature Bluesky has but using Piefed’s keyword filter (Settings > Filters > Keyword Filters when using the web version)

              In my “perfect world” these filters are predefined and put rage bait posts in the same cultural zeitgeist as NSFW ones