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submitted 2 years ago by nxlemmy@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1239521

Reddit used to have something similar to health bar showing how much "gold" was bought to support the website. but later on out of greed they started using it as a paywall.

We can have a health bar that doesnt paywall ANY features and very transparently displays funds raised\used for a server. It can be used to display how much funds its being supported, how much server costs are, salaries for open source maintainers, mods, etc.

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[-] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 10 points 2 years ago

definitely agree, but it shouldn't be just funds for server costs, also funds that go towards the developers of lemmy. if we want lemmy to improve, this needs to become the developer's primary full-time job, and the only way to do that is to have a much more substantial amount of funds coming their way each month.

[-] Dented-Mantle-4133@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Multiple bars and a breakdown for each would be fantastic.

[-] nxlemmy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah this would be great and much more transparent than how reddit did it

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