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.
  • SubscribeStar.adult: Account is not approved yet.
  • Ethereum: 0x4e4af5dc2f86235ac496542c2a1c00f3c4de40c6
  • Monero: 48VYVWPKk65KiDiBaLhvSggKSbDQ4vtdq6HHbDa2HxWLiBWVcZ65gTgMBu7UeSUcm4dasAMMaKHnJNJSgRKi7Q5R5HN9adg
  • Trocador.app (multiple cryptocurrencies)

Financial status

Finally, our instance became self-sustainable with donations! We received a lot of donations especially in February. Therefore, I would like to report the financial status here.

date description fiat ETH 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.
  • Lachlanunchained@lemmynsfw.com
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    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!

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      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.

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        Yes. And I’m genuinely ok with big staff spends. Spend it on hookers and cocaine for all I care. All is like to see is that some percentage is committed and shown to be given back to the source code developers.

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          Agreed, there’s nothing wrong with making a living. 👍

          I’d love to see if we could get enough donations going to distribute to content creators? Maybe this is a more mainstream instance/general purpose NSFW, but it would be very cool to see an instance giving ownership to its content creators.

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      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?

      • Lachlanunchained@lemmynsfw.com
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        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.

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          How big a proportion of potential supporters do you think would prefer to pay in crypto?

          I’m in column A, but not column B. Just for “statistical purposes”.

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    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.

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      You’re one of the people I’ve seen from the very beginning. Thank you for your support!

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    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.

    • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPM
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      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 :)

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        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

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      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.

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    I suggest you to use XRP, TRX and LTC for cheap transaction fees and speed, and check out a VPS provider called IONOS.

    Edit: I suggest you BTW to open an OnlyFans and Fansly account for the instance and try to carry creators to the platform maybe you can make a special community for them and get some extra donations.

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    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.

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      Thank you for your support! But I really didn’t changed the compose file. I just used default ansible setup for simplicity.

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    Just a headsup if you’re trying to get on Open Collective, it looks like that might be another patreon scenario:

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      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.

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    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. ❤️

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      Thank you! Every dollar is important and you can be sure that we will use every single dollar for this instance.

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    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.

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    Thank you for doing this in the first place! Do you maybe have PayPal? Otherwise I’ll look into Patreon 😊

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      You’re welcome! I really wish I had a PayPal account but unfortunately not :/

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      Hmm. Let me check MetaMask for it.

      Nope, MetaMask only supports Ethereum or derivates. I’ve used MyMonero for it.

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        Maybe I’ve already did? I have plausible deniability ;) The Monero blockchain is not transparent.

        But for the sake of transparency, if the admins want to, they can post a monthly summary of XMR donations.

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            I don’t know how saying what platform is used to host the server will affect its security that much.

            For example, the fact you are using cloudflare is public and doesn’t really harm you.

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              Yeah it doesn’t but its a shield in front of host itself. We’re not doing anything illegal here but still.

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                I mean, it would be trivial to find for anyone who cares to run a ping and do a Google search for the IP it resolves. You’re definitely not shielding yourself from any government agencies by keeping it secret.

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                  The reason they won’t reveal is because Pornography is flat out banned in Ukraine, if we revealed this someone might report us and get the host taken away again, similar to what happened when the server used Hetzner.

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        Probably a really stupid and ignorant question, but how are you hosting in Ukraine when they are at war?

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          They need money now more than before. Why would they stop exporting stuff?

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    Just subbed on Patreon! Question, are you holding off on upgrading the instance because of the issues with the search?

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        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