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YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's useful thx for the intro.

I think it's enough for the big picture, and it enables me to make several follow up questions such as

I had no idea this was in the hands of 2 people. Do they really make a living primarily on crowd sourced funds? Exciting and scary for the future of software in general!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

There's a bit more detail here. I think I saw something about NLnet funding getting renewed recently. There are other open source contributors too, but these two are the main Lemmy team.