Lemmy is entirely reliant on donations to function, yet the current amount of donations is barely enough to fund development, and some instances also dont receive enough funding.
To improve this I suggest to display donation links more prominently. Namely on the homepage, below the sidebar text we can show the following:
Donation info for Lemmy development
Donation info local instance
Donation info for current frontend/app
It could also be shown above the sidebar and collapsed by default. For the local instance, there needs to be a new config option with markdown text for the donation info. The backend returns this together with donation info for Lemmy development. Frontends and apps can add their own donation info as well.
Additionally, when viewing a community we could show this:
Donation info for Lemmy development
Donation info for instance where community is hosted
Donation info for current frontend/app
In this case it would be necessary to federate the donation info.
Lemmy is entirely reliant on donations to function, yet the current amount of donations is barely enough to fund development, and some instances also dont receive enough funding.
To improve this I suggest to display donation links more prominently. Namely on the homepage, below the sidebar text we can show the following:
It could also be shown above the sidebar and collapsed by default. For the local instance, there needs to be a new config option with markdown text for the donation info. The backend returns this together with donation info for Lemmy development. Frontends and apps can add their own donation info as well.
Additionally, when viewing a community we could show this:
In this case it would be necessary to federate the donation info.