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      Absolutely! Server donations are good for a single instance but I think a service that allows users to purchase gold/awards and awards the particular instance (with funds) that they get used on would help fund the Fediverse as a whole. I imagine implementing something like that would not be simple but anything is better than injecting ads.

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          I think it should be totally anonymous though because otherwise you go down the road of users with special avatars and good knows what

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        implementing something like that would not be simple

        Especially with the idea that an instance a user calls home/registered on would have to be ok with allowing a donation link to go to the instance that the user you’re “gilding” is on

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      Precisely. They were a fun thing to give out, and directly helped to pay for server time. I even liked how Reddit would tell you how much server time your awards gave to Reddit (which I think they’ve removed?).

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      Kbin already has this covered. We can pay monthly to keep servers running via

      Patreon and Liberapay.

      @Ernest has transferred the existing Buy Me A Coffee money over to the server fund and from this point on we really can buy him a beer via Buy Me A Coffee which is cool!

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          Well there are 49 subscribed people on patreon totaling $170/month. Lots of people probably already have accounts set up which makes it a very low threshold to join.

          Meanwhile on librepay, arguably more philosophically suitable, there are 11 subscribers totaling $13/month.

          Man, considering how many people I have seen saying how great it is to be able to pay, and asserting they are making donations, those are very low numbers.

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            Could be because it is less circulated. I had seen the coffee option previously but didn’t realise the other 2 options had been setup until I came across this comment.

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          I’m not Ernest but my guess is it gives us greater flexibility?

          Like, some of us are already active on one or the other of those platforms, plus between them there are lots of different options for amount. I’d never heard of Liberapay but I like how it’s a non-profit.

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        Do not imagine for an instant that if Lemmy/Kbin becomes like Reddit and embraces enshitification that the community will not walk again.

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      100%, but the Federated nature would make this difficult, I’d imagine.

      I’d love a way to simultaneously:

      • show someone I appreciate their comment

      • Help support an instance

      • Help support KBin development

      But, outside of crypto, I don’t see an easy way to make that happen and doing it through crypto would bring out the crypto bros and mega-anti crypto joe’s in about equal numbers, which would suck (plus, who’s to say that an instance admin even wants to deal with crypto to collect a few bucks).