Don't know what the exact cause was/is for this big surge - but I am glad to see it. No matter what personal problems people may have with the main devs, they are doing great work on the platform.

https://join-lemmy.org/donate

https://liberapay.com/Lemmy

Also of interest, since this is a good place to plug things, other threadiverse things:

https://liberapay.com/PieFed/

And I couldn't find a way to donate to mbin, in lieu of that:

https://docs.joinmbin.org/contributing/

EDIT: The creator of mbin gave a link in the comments: https://melroy.org/donate.html

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[–] Goten@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

nice, its still up there.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 386 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

[–] Hope@lemmy.world 164 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I really thought this was an elaborate Saddam hiding meme

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s what he thought too.

[–] Zentron@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago

Yeep , same ... came here to post the pic but someone beat me to it lol

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 95 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

… what does it mean‽‽‽‽

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[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 60 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Great, now I won't be able to unsee that ever again!

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself.

[–] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 weeks ago

I came here to say this

[–] juliorapido@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

This one still has the head!

[–] secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What is this? I don't get it.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Compare the shape of the graph to the shape of the graphic which represented Saddam Hussein. They're vaguely similar.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 9 points 1 week ago

*near perfect 8-bit representation

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 143 points 2 weeks ago

Can’t slip a Saddam past us that easily!

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 102 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Saddam Hussein

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

The fact that that was my first thought is the reason I will be touching grass for the remainder of the day.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 week ago

God damn it now I cant unsee it

[–] Matth78@lemm.ee 100 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Dev posted few weeks ago about donations being a little short and having lowered making it more difficult to support development. A lot of people then started to donate or increase their financial support.

Edit : for reference https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, yes, that was right at the time where I was having peak personal stress/health issues and only did the bare minimum admin work on Lemmy and my other platforms, no wonder I missed it. Glad to see people actually responded to the call to action, though!

[–] wit@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope you are doing better OP!

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 14 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 70 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I see Saddam Hussein.

Also, we're doing our part. They're still halfway from their nodest goal though.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm Melroy, mbin creator. You can donate via https://melroy.org/donate.html for now.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also you didn't link the correct project url. That is another project called mbin. This is our public site instead: https://joinmbin.org/

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whoops, corrected now. I was already surprised I had gotten a result not hosted on joinmbin.org - but just assumed maybe the docs were hosted somewhere else for some reason. Should have taken the extra minutes to check what exactly I was linking there.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Oh yea I started donating all right...to PieFed (I don't even have a PF account), .world and .cafe.

I won't be giving a penny to them until I see some major changes in regards to .ml as so many people called for on every other version of the donation thread that wasn't .ml

[–] ColdSideOfYourPillow@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You can still donate to Lemmy without supporting ML! From https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.ml/post/29579005:

Update: For those of you who want to support Lemmy development without financing the hosting of lemmy.ml, know that the hosting is paid exclusively through OpenCollective. You can see the payment details at this link. This means donations through all other platforms (Liberapay, Ko-fi, Patreon, Crypto) are exclusively for Lemmy development, and not a single cent goes to lemmy.ml hosting.

Edit: Liberapay is the preferable donation option, as it has very low fees and is also open source.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As was brought up in those threads, but it's simply not good enough, it's just paying for .ml with extra steps (e.g. through their pay/salary rather than directly funding hosting costs)

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is a bold lie that Nutomic keeps pushing. These donations go directly to Nutomic and Dessalines. The servers are not the problem. The problem is the admins who happen to be the devs.

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 30 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

They posted asking for people to stand up for them. Dirty communists like myself (okay, and others) stood up and pushed that message everywhere we could. Because you have to want freedom and democracy. It does not come for free.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They posted asking for people to stand up for them.

Ah, that makes sense - I missed that, but have been happily giving them a bit of money for years now. I don't have a lot to spare, but every little bit helps with crowdfunded stuff like that.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 12 points 2 weeks ago

Same here. I dont have a lot atm but I try to give what I can and also help out with work.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

This reminded me that I wanted to support. Just did a yearly payment. Thanks for the amazing work guys! I can't believe a just a few people can maintain such an amazing ecosystem. One day people will understand that, in 48 hours, we could destroy the entire gafam system and replace it with a fair alternative: the Fediverse and FLOSS.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 18 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, even if it's 2p a month, it'll add up and ensure the longevity of the service at the heart of what we all use daily.

[–] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I use Lemmy daily, the least I can do is throw a bit of cash at the Devs!

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[–] ZonenRanslite@feddit.org 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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[–] Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

Interesting. feddit.org also saw a sudden peak in new users registering in the same time period.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Intended to do it long time ago, finally committed!

I have spent way too much time on lemmy this past two years, it is worth the money.

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