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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/support@lemmy.nz
 

Hi all!

TL;DR We now collect donations directly. You can donate to Lemmy.nz's server costs here: https://ko-fi.com/lemmynz

This page was rewritten on 11/5/2025 as NZ Fedi Services are stepping away from hosting Mastodon.nz, Pixelfed, and some others, and because we piggyback on their hosting we may need to rent our own server. They have stopped accepting donations, so I have set up a page to take donations while we work out where we will host in future.

You can now donate to Lemmy.nz here: https://ko-fi.com/lemmynz

  • You can do one off donations, and they will be appreciated, but regular donations are best even if smaller, as it helps for longer term planning.
  • If you're currently donating to the NZ Fedi Services pages (Open collective or Ko-fi), please cancel it and use the above ko-fi link if you can.
  • If making the donation will materially affect you, PLEASE DON'T DONATE! Lemmy.nz is not going to die if you don't donate. Please only donate if you have plenty of money, but if you can donate on a regular basis without it materially affecting you, then please consider a regular donation.

Also, it's only a "donation" in the loosest form of the word. It's not a tax deductible donation as we aren't registered as a charity or approved donee organisation. It is simply a contribution to the costs of running Lemmy.nz.

It's hard to guess at costs since we have been piggybacking on other hosting, and would probably move to using object storage for images which is much cheaper than local hard drives. It's likely to be at least $50(NZD) a month, though. We could probably get away with less but this would have a performance impact.

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[โ€“] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Keep up the good work @dave@lemmy.nz. I can't donate further to lemmy than running my own instance, and in fact I'm having to rationalize some of my IT/domain (just about to drop a couple of domains*) spend.

If you can do all of lemmy.nz for under $50 a month I think you are doing well

  • Does anyone want to buy a buggerme.*.nz domain?
[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Don't worry about it! Like I said, Lemmy.nz is not at risk of shutting down any time soon. Just trying to help our hosts get a sustainable funding stream ๐Ÿ™‚

I don't need any more domains I don't use, I've done a massive cull the last few years and I think I'm down to only one I'm not using at all ๐Ÿ˜