i see a lot of news about australian politics, news of seattle, darmstadt, brazil, ... all places where i don't live, where the posts aren't relevant to me. it would be cool to be able to tag posts/communities with a geographical location so i can easily filter which posts are / aren't probably relevant to me. in one setting in my profile, instead of having to block each community individually (there's hundreds of them at this point)

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[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Lemmy puts up full-page advertisements for donations but a lot of that funding goes to running Lemmy.ml and seemingly only very little to actual code development.

Please stop spreading misinformation. The server for lemmy.ml only costs ~70€ per month which is only 2% of the total donation amount (3336€). With Lemmy we care a lot about writing high-quality and bug-free code as well as offering a good user experience. All of that takes time to do well.

Edit: For your information, only donations via Opencollective pay for lemmy.ml hosting. All other donation methods are exclusively paying for developer salaries.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

obligatory thank you to the devs! you did a great job so far.

there's still a lot of features that i'd like to see getting developed, like integration with other fediverse services (mastodon, pixelfed) and such, but i guess that it's just difficult and just takes a long time to be properly done

also i'm donating like $10/month

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Better integration with Mastodon or Pixelfed mainly needs to be done from their side, but it seems those projects are not interested. Are there any specific improvements you would like to see?

Thanks for donating!

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For your information, only donations via Opencollective pay for lemmy.ml hosting.

Perhaps that could be more clearly stated across the donation platforms?

Lemmy has great potential as a Reddit alternative, but its perceived association with lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad will inherently lead to some users not joining or donating. Emphasizing the distinction between funding for Lemmy and funding for Lemmy.ml would probably lead to an increased number of donations.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Okay I'm adding that to the donation page on join-lemmy.org.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-translations/pull/50