cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1239521

Reddit used to have something similar to health bar showing how much “gold” was bought to support the website. but later on out of greed they started using it as a paywall.

We can have a health bar that doesnt paywall ANY features and very transparently displays funds raised\used for a server. It can be used to display how much funds its being supported, how much server costs are, salaries for open source maintainers, mods, etc.

  • knowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Awesome & thank you, makes sense.

    I’m freeloading from FMHY, kbin.social and mastondon.uk as I try to figure out how this works and been playing around with self hosting instances, this is interesting.

    A small fee for a safe and reliable place seems reasonable, cheers for the post :)