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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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Lemmy is like a public library of the internet: it's one of the few places where you can exist without the expectation of paying either through watching ads or through direct payments (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A library is paid though.

Donate to your instance, and decentralize the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean by taxes?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Where i come from you can go there and read for free, but if you want to borrow stuff you need to have a card which is paid my an abo.

And they will also get money by the city likely

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

In my city/county, you get a free card if you can prove you live here (show something with your address) Our system will also do fundraisers to supplement the budget from taxes. We almost lost some libraries a gew years ago, but voters remade the local government and they are safer now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's sucks.

In my country I'm pretty sure library cards are always free. The card has to be collected in person though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Welcome to Germany! Fucking hell here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

NYC libraries are free, but asshole conservatives (but I repeat myself) don't want to fund them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not even expensive. A single euro monthly per user is more then enough to keep instances running

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that micro-payments are a pain in the ass. On Liberapay I often pay people 2 years in advance which is then pretty much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm not suggesting to pay one euro each month, I'm suggesting that you treat your lemmy instance as a 12 euro per year subscription. Compared to literally every other service it is basically free.