I see you have started a number of communities and you’re a new member. There’s no rules against this, but I do hope you might take the time to grow the communities you’ve started. You’re taking on a lot of committment, or perhaps creating a lot of spaces that will join the many dead spaces we already have.

I’m not telling you not to do this, I’m just hoping you realize that creating communities is by far the easiest part.

Do not use ableist slurs here.

https://mony.world/ exists, hosted by us, if you want to play with it. (I wasn’t involved in the setup, so can’t answer much about it)

As someone not fond of Discord, it seems pretty decent and pretty Discord-like.

You main acount had a tempban. That just got escalated to a permanent ban. Nice.

Well, okay, you can make up whatever you want to believe, I guess.

Lemmy world is probably owned by a corporation.

No. It is owned by a nonprofit set up for the purpose. The person that started it brought on a few volunteers (like me) to help out. We depend on donations, and receive some recurring and one-off donations. Every few months or so, we post a short request for more donations as the donations dip below the monthly costs, and that seems to keep us going.

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “curates” / “shadowbans”, so I won’t directly comment on that. But a large part of the reason I was brought on was to have another person looking out for spam and such.

I can respect that opinion, and I will say… I have a number of people blocked. It’s easy to do.

Speaking only for us here on Lemmy.World, we try to ban people who break the Lemmy.World ToS, which include issues like bigotry, incivility, spam, things like that. Not necessarily opinions with which we might disagree or find unpleasant. I think if I allowed myself to ban anyone with whom I disagreed, I would find myself quickly de-adminned, and rightfully so - it would kill the fedverse.

There are other tools for dealing with, well, tools. Including blocking on a personal level, or having community rules in place that make sense for that community that can help create spaces that are more comfortable to be in.

So while I agree with your sentiment, understanding the roles of the instance admins vs community moderators or individual choices - that’s why I set up a monthly donation before I became an admin. Because Lemmy provides me with good content and communities.

Everyone is absolutely free to make their own choices. And this reply is not an attempt to beg you to donate.

I’m passing this question along and tracking your comment so I can let you know when I get an answer :)

Thank you! <3

Thank you! :)

Thank you, you rock! <3

I donate in USD since I’m a USian; ultimately the currency doesn’t matter much, it all gets converted and sent out for the servers and such anyway :)

Put it on PornHub and they can read it from atop Barbie?

Thank you! Every bit helps!

Thank you! <3

I’ve passed the question along and if someone gives me an answer, I’ll be glad to pass that along :)

I know that we look for nonprofit-help everywhere we can, but I don’t have a specific answer for you at this time, but I’ve marked this to see if we can answer you later, at least :)

Thank you so much! <3

My understanding is Ko-Fi which is why it’s preferred. As others pointed out, payment processors take out some fees for card usage, and my understanding is that Ko-Fi takes the least. That said, we have options because most of them aren’t too bad, and all donations help :)

Thank you! <3

It absolutely does and it is appreciated. Every bit goes to costs. <3