nutomic, 5 months ago

Thanks a lot for the donation! Weve added you to the “Gold Pressed Latinum” sponsors on join-lemmy.org.

7heo, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Hold on, is that a grant or a donation? (The difference is that a donation is definitive, while there are conditions, such as failing to fulfil an obligation, under which a grant has to be repaid)

lutindiscret, 5 months ago

@7heo according to your definitions, it's a donation. We don't expect anything else that money be spent on working on Lemmy.

@lemmy

andrew_bidlaw, 5 months ago

I only wonder why it’s 3333€.

lutindiscret, 5 months ago

@andrew_bidlaw long story short, it's due to our way to democratically split our budget.

We take 1% of our sales. That's ~ €17k

€10k of the budget go to the firsts "winners" of a vote we have internally. We had 3 winners so the €10k was split in 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 so €5k was attributed to @panoramax €3333 to support the threadiverse and €1666 for https://www.hackinscience.org/

@lemmy

andrew_bidlaw, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Thank you for answering and honest cheers on doing that. I don’t think people behind these projects have enough support or credit. And as little as 1.3k can be seen in IT, it goes directly into supporting their passion projects benefiting us as a whole (:

lutindiscret, 5 months ago

@andrew_bidlaw you would be surprised. Many projects are so short on money that you can make people so happy. Sometimes, even giving 100€ was life-changing for some people we supported 😲

@lemmy

andrew_bidlaw, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Indeed. If only I wasn’t in fucking russia. It feels like FOSS suporting may finally lead me to learning crypto, in non speculative ways, only to support what these chads are doing. The Atlants, bearing the world I can regularly shitpost to on their shoulders.

Jumuta, 5 months ago

based

otter, 5 months ago

Very cool!