Wow that makes the pace of new feature development all the more striking.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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It's pretty normal for new software to have a fast pace of new feature development, and for software that has established itself somewhat to have slower pace. Especially as fast pace means accumulating tech debt that you have to work on later
Yeah it's amazing
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Can I make a one-time donation?
One-time donations aren't properly supported yet, but you can discontinue your donation immediately after initiating the first payment.
Yeah that's something I've been needing to do for a while.
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can we say that it is insanely cheap?
for an online platform competing with the big social media companies a total of less than 500 per month is nothing.
want to know the cost per active user per month and compare when Reddit and Facebook overhead.
That's specifically development funding. The hosting cost/funding is separate on an instance by instance basis, most likely the majority of funding comes from whoever owns/operates the instance.
you're forgetting about hosting, administration, and moderation! Don't forget to donate to your instance folks
Y'all pay your mods?
No, although I guess I would hope that instances take care of their mods. Good point actually
Warms my heart that people clearly care so much about keeping Lemmy going 😁
I moved to Piefed because the Lemmy devs are pro-fascist tankies. I can provide proof.
can you provide proof?
(also tagging @BaroqueInMind@piefed.social)
There is an entire community dedicated to this at !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works (see especially the megathread post with many linked examples), while other communities mostly have stopped talking about it since it is such common knowledge (therefore "old news" and thus off topic), but see also some posts in e.g. !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com .
I note that lemmy.cafe is one of the only instances I've ever heard of that is brave enough to defederate from all three of the largest tankie instances, despite the main devs of the Lemmy software also being the admins of some of those.
Edit: also there is this interesting post: https://feddit.nl/post/16246531 .
I note that lemmy.cafe is one of the only instances I’ve ever heard of that is brave enough to defederate from all three of the largest tankie instances, despite the main devs of the Lemmy software also being the admins of some of those.
What does defederating mean?
A complete cutoff of all communication between instances (servers). Theoretically should only be used as a last resort, where the instance admins refuse to moderate their userbase, but in practice there seem to be several instances that contribute mainly negative (i.e. trolling) content to the rest of the Fediverse, in which case losing everything from them - all the good but also all the bad too - becomes worth it.
See also the "Nazi bar" effect: YOU may not be a Nazi, nor any of your friends, and you may meet separately like a quiet corner or back room, but if you hang out in a bar that becomes known for being friendly to Nazis, then anyone you invite to join you at the bar is likely to deny your request. The possibility of goodness of conversations with you in that case gets outweighed by the likelihood of bad interactions with the Nazis that they would have to pass by on their way to you.
Although in the case of Lemmy, it is not Alt-Right Nazis, but Alt-Left tankies, at hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml, and to a lesser but still very significant degree lemmy.ml.
https://lemmy.world/post/24798
https://fediversereport.com/lemmy-ask-you-anything-again/
https://sh.itjust.works/post/6776825
They responded to the accusations with the following press-releases, but I'm not convinced:
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout
I might switch or have both Lemmy and PieFed profiles. When you moved to PieFed, was it possible to sync or import your data from Lemmy? Comments, posts, upvotes, etc.
You can import your Lemmy settings, which are the subscribed and blocked communities, instances and users, and saved posts as well
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Rimu really needs to hustle these days.
The Lemmy money is spread across 3 devs or so? And they have been writing it since 2018 or something. It's not surprising that they have more momentum and name recognition.
PieFed is new and on Codeberg. Especially the Codeberg thing, I like. It does lack a CI though. How stable is it?
It breaks all the time but usually only for a tiny bit of time.
It has a docker setup, so in theory a good ci could start with just making sure that runs. Then we get the nicities like testing, e2e, deployment, ect ..
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Now calculate the donations per active user and the difference becomes very small.
41425 MAU/$4250.39 = 9.74.../$1
1629 MAU/$60.86 = 26,76.../$1
Turns out the difference did not, in fact, become very small
But.... That is the exact opposite of what the comment asked for
assuming your numbers are correct:
4250,39 $ ÷ 41425 MAU = 0,1026 $/MAU
60,86 $ ÷ 1629 MAU = 0,0374 $/MAU
edit: formating
Both of those things demonstrate the same point:
Lemmy has more funding per user (or, similarly, fewer users per dollar) by a large margin
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