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Reddthat - Official Funding and Future Plans (Updated: 2024-03-20) (opencollective.com)
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Hello! It seems you have made it to our donation post.

Thankyou

We created Reddthat for the purposes of creating a community, that can be run by the community. We did not want it to be something that is moderated, administered and funded by 1 or 2 people.

Current Recurring Donators on OpenCollective:

Current Total Amazing People on OpenCollective:

Background

In one of very first posts titled "Welcome one and all" we talked about what our short term and long term goals are.
In 7 days since starting, we have already federated with over 700 difference instances, have 24 different communities and over 250 users that have contributed over 550 comments. So I think we've definitely achieved our short term goals, and I thought this was going to take closer to 3 months to get these types of numbers!

We would like to first off thank everyone for being here, subscribing to our communities and calling Reddthat home!

Donation Links (Updated 2024-08)

Current Plans:

  • Create our own production Lemmy builds with cherry picked commits to help with the long load times.
  • In April 2025 we are renewing our server hosting for the next 12 months. At that point in time we will evaluate if we can scale down to a more cost effective instance.

Annual Costings:

Our current costs are

  • Domain: 15 Euro (~$25 AUD)
  • Server: $897.60 Usd (~$1365 AUD)
  • EU Server: 39 Euro (~$64 AUD)
  • Wasabi Object Storage: $72 Usd (~$111 AUD)
  • Total: ~1565 AUD per year (~$130.42/month)

That's our goal. That is the number we need to achieve in funding to keep us going for another year.

Cheers,
Tiff

PS. Thank you to our donators! Your names will forever be remembered by me: Last updated on 2024-08-08

Current Recurring Gods (๐ŸŒŸ)

  • Nankeru (๐ŸŒŸ)
  • souperk (๐ŸŒŸ)
  • Incognito (x3 ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ)
  • ThiccBathtub (๐ŸŒŸ)
  • Bryan (๐ŸŒŸ)
  • Guest (x2 ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ)
  • Ashley (๐ŸŒŸ)
  • Alex (๐ŸŒŸ)
  • MentallyExhausted (๐ŸŒŸ)

Once Off Heroes

  • Guest(s) x13
  • souperk
  • MonsiuerPatEBrown
  • Patrick x4
  • Stimmed
  • MrShankles
  • RIPSync
  • Alexander
  • muffin
  • Dave_r
  • Ed
  • djsaskdja
  • hit_the_rails
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi All,

A mini-update hiding in the comments but I wanted to let you all know that today marks the day we hit double digits (10) of unique contributors! Especially the 2 who have committed to being a monthly contributor! You rock! ๐Ÿฅณ ๐Ÿ˜
(A little ninja en edit but we are now at 5 recurring donations. The post has been updated to reflect those amazing people. โ™ฅ )

Monthly donations will be the key in the long term sustainability of Reddthat. It will allow us to continue to improve Reddthat, create and run any bots the community needs, and keeping the server filled to the brim with the coffee it needs to serve you your pictures and posts as fast as it can!

I'm honestly amazed and flabbergasted that there are so many people in our community who want to help out, and have reached out.

Something that I will be performing in the future (a full announcement is scheduled in the next couple weeks depending when v0.18 of Lemmy that comes out), will be moving our picture storage from "local storage" to "object storage" at Backblaze. This will enable us to dedicate more resources to the database to allow for an extended period of keeping our costs to a minimal expenditure.

Thank you so much for your contributions in not only a financial sense but for sticking around, creating your communities and engaging in thoughtful discussions around what may be hard subjects to broach. Together we make this a pleasant & interesting place to be!

From the bottom of my heart,
Tiff <3