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.
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.
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.
Same, I already did. Maybe the fediverse foundation would host a PieFed instance if there’s enough interest.
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
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.
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!
Another proud PieFedizen here. I support my server !