We are currently the 2nd largest instance in terms of monthly active users. This brings a financial burden and we would appreciate your help about it.

If you want to donate, here’s donation platforms we use:

Financial status

Here is what we have and what we spent.

date description USD ETH XMR
2024-12-14 - main server 59 (-75) 0.0097 2.0224
2024-12-12 - media storage 134 (-18) 0.0097 2.0224
2024-12-11 + donation 152 0.0097 2.0224 (+0.0106)
2024-11-28 + donation 152 (+20) 0.0097 2.0118
2024-11-26 + donation 132 (+5) 0.0097 2.0118
2024-11-25 + donation 127 (+20) 0.0097 2.0118
2024-11-24 - load balance server 107 0.0097 2.0118 (-0.0707)
2024-11-16 + donation (from 11-15) 107 0.0097 2.0825 (+0.0569)
2024-11-16 + donation (from 11-07) 107 0.0097 2.0256 (+1 🙏)
2024-11-14 - main server 107 (-75) 0.0097 1.0256
2024-11-12 + donation 182 (+20) 0.0097 1.0256
2024-11-12 - media storage 162 (-18) 0.0097 1.0256
2024-11-08 + donation 180 (+10) 0.0097 1.0256
2024-11-01 + donation 170 (+10) 0.0097 1.0256
2024-10-25 - load balance server 160 0.0097 1.0256 (-0.0770)
2024-10-17 + donation 160 (+10) 0.0097 1.1026
2024-10-15 + donation 150 0.0097 (+0.0073) 1.1026
2024-10-14 - main server 150 (-75) 0.002 1.1026
2024-10-12 - media storage 225 (-18) 0.002 1.1026
2024-09-24 - load balance servers 243 0.002 1.1026 (-0.1270)
2024-09-14 - main server 243 (-75) 0.002 1.2296
2024-09-12 - media storage 318 (-17) 0.002 1.2296
2024-08-30 + donation 335 0.002 1.2296 (+0.0318)
2024-08-26 - load balance server 335 0.002 1.1577 (-0.1153)
2024-08-16 + donations (one from July 29) 335 (+20) 0.002 1.2731
2024-08-14 - main server 315 (-75) 0.002 1.2731
2024-08-12 - media storage 390 (-15) 0.002 1.2731
2024-07-26 + donation 405 (+5) 0.002 1.2731
2024-07-26 + donation 400 (+20) 0.002 1.2731
2024-07-26 + donation 380 (+50) 0.002 1.2731
2024-07-25 - load balance server 330 0.002 1.2731 (-0.0729)
2024-07-14 - main server 330 (-75) 0.002 1.3460
2024-07-12 - media storage 405 (-25) 0.002 1.3460
2024-06-24 - load balance server 430 0.002 1.3460 (-0.0731)
2024-06-14 - main server 430 (-75) 0.002 1.4192
2024-06-13 + donation 505 (+20) 0.002 1.4192
2024-06-12 - media storage 485 (-25) 0.002 1.4192
2024-06-06 + donation 510 (+20) 0.002 1.4192
2024-06-04 / coin to fiat 490 (+473) 0.002 (-0.125) 1.4192
2024-05-22 - load balance server 17 0.1276 1.4192 (-0.0861)
2024-05-22 + donation 17 0.1276 1.5050 (+0.1442)
2024-05-21 + donation 17 0.1276 1.3611 (+1)
2024-05-17 + donation 17 0.1276 0.3611 (+042069 🚬)
2024-05-17 + donation 17 (+20) 0.1276 0.3190
2024-05-15 - main server -3 (-75) 0.1276 0.3190
2024-05-13 - media storage 72 (-24) 0.1276 0.3190
2024-04-28 + donation 96 (+50) 0.1276 0.3190
2024-04-26 + donation 46 (+20) 0.1276 0.3190
2024-04-24 - load balance server 26 0.1276 0.3190 (-0.0993)
2024-04-21 + donation 26 (+50) 0.1276 0.4184
2024-04-15 - main server -24 (-65) 0.1276 0.4184
2024-04-10 - media storage 41 (-19) 0.1276 0.4184
2024-04-09 + donation 60 0.1276 (+0.06969 🙃) 0.4184
2024-04-01 + donations 60 (+25) 0.0579 0.4184 (+0.1827)
2024-03-30 - load balance server 35 0.0579 0.2357 (-0.0890)
2024-03-04 + donation 35 0.0579 0.3247 (+0.0420)
2024-03-02 - main server 35 (-65) 0.0579 0.2827
2024-02-28 + donation 100 0.0579 (+0.0073) 0.2827
2024-02-27 - load balance server 100 0.0506 0.2827 (-0.1516)
2024-02-01 - new server and email provider 100 (-75) 0.0506 0.3738
2024-02-01 / approximate initial value 175 0.0506 0.3738
A little note about about this financial status report
  • Throne
    • it is fiat type and I will only add money here when I withdraw it.
  • Cryptocurrencies
    • I will truncate numbers to 4 decimal places.
    • It may not always be up to date. You can check up to date ETH balance by clicking to it.
    • No matter which coin you send from Trocador, the money will merge into Monero.
  • @Lachlanunchained
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    1821 year ago

    Hello, team at LemmyNSFW,

    I’m delighted to see your instance growing and I completely support the idea of donating to ensure the longevity and quality of this platform. Your hard work in maintaining and developing this instance is very much appreciated.

    However, I’d like to bring up the idea of financial transparency within our community. Have you considered using a platform like Open Collective for your donation system? It has been adopted by other instances, including Lemmy.world. You can see an example of how they use it here: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

    In my opinion, Lemmy.world is a shining example of how a Lemmy instance should operate financially. They provide transparency about their finances, which has greatly contributed to building trust with their users and the platform as a whole.

    Considering we’re part of an open-source, decentralized platform, I believe this level of transparency is paramount. It not only helps in building trust but also encourages more users to donate, knowing exactly how their contributions will be utilized.

    Moreover, seeing big instances openly donating back to the source code developers could set a wonderful precedent. This act of giving back to those who helped create the foundation of our platform would be a tremendous demonstration of gratitude and community spirit.

    Again, I am wholeheartedly in support of donating to this community, and I hope my suggestion will be taken into consideration. Keep up the fantastic work!

    • @Filth
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      571 year ago

      Going to have to agree that something like this would be good. Lets people see all in one place where we stand and what is needed.

      • @Lachlanunchained
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        331 year ago

        Yes. And I’m genuinely ok with big staff spends. Spend it on hookers and cocaine for all I care. All is like to see is that some percentage is committed and shown to be given back to the source code developers.

        • @goneworld
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          201 year ago

          Agreed, there’s nothing wrong with making a living. 👍

          I’d love to see if we could get enough donations going to distribute to content creators? Maybe this is a more mainstream instance/general purpose NSFW, but it would be very cool to see an instance giving ownership to its content creators.

          • @RandyC
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            49 months ago

            Depending on the jurisdictions involved (where the server is hosted and where the admins live), I can imagine there may be very different laws and regulations governing a forum of user-submitted content and a business acting as a publisher and producer of porn content. A great idea, but not as simple as just having the money to do it.

        • @KhazadRistur
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          55 months ago

          Spend it on hookers …

          Use the money to generate more content… smart.

    • @yayOPMA
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      1 year ago

      Thank you for your opinion! I would like to do this too but we don’t use single payment method. Also does Open Collective approve payments or should we trust the admin for this? And do admins attach bills somewhere?

      • @Lachlanunchained
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        231 year ago

        Open collective (of which I have zero affiliation) is working on taking cryptocurrency payments. Last I checked it was in beta.

        You can give evidence where you feel it would be beneficial. But yeh. You could always find work arounds.

        If it’s something you genuinely want to explore, I’m happy to volunteer some of my time to help you with implementing and managing that.

        The key thing I’d like to see in all instances, not just yours, is transparency in income, plus some sort of transparency as to how much that may be given back to the community and the source code development.

        Honestly. What’s done with the rest, I care very little.

        • @yayOPMA
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          161 year ago

          Can you contact me from Matrix? my address is @xaeg:matrix.org

        • @baconboy
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          31 year ago

          How big a proportion of potential supporters do you think would prefer to pay in crypto?

          I’m in column A, but not column B. Just for “statistical purposes”.

          • @yayOPMA
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            1 year ago

            If we were a non-NSFW instance, I wouldn’t add crypto but anonymity is important for some people (me included).

            • @baconboy
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              51 year ago

              I definitely understand where you’re coming from, I was just attempting to debate cost/value.

              • @yayOPMA
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                121 year ago

                Almost half of the supporters donating from crypto, so I don’t think its unnecessary.

          • @Lachlanunchained
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            41 year ago

            I’d probably prefer pay in crypto. Also receive in crypto TBH. Just for anonymity’s sake.

            • @baconboy
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              31 year ago

              I mean since you brought up crypto I accept that as a given.

              Just think that most people aren’t into crypto as much as those who are into crypto like to think.

              • @Lachlanunchained
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                21 year ago

                Oh no. I agree. I brought it up because the instance is already taking crypto payments.

                • @Melddy
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                  11 month ago

                  You can text me on telegram if you need an experience trader to handle your finances and trade.look at the bitcoin rate currently

  • @[email protected]
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    351 year ago

    Out of curiosity how much storage are you using either total or on average with this instance? I feel like with the amount of media being uploaded it’s likely slightly larger than others.

    • @yayOPMA
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      It was about 30GB when I checked two days ago.

      Edit: it’s 33 now.

      • @kekpant
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        131 year ago

        Could consider utilising storage buckets for this - Backblaze B2 is $0.005 per GB/month and has partnerships with Cloudflare etc. Should reduce your costs pretty well.

      • @nahimsayin
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        222 days ago

        This was a year ago, how much is it now?

        • @yayOPMA
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          520 days ago

          We have 1.34TB data for only media storage now :)

    • @yayOPMA
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      181 year ago

      You’re one of the people I’ve seen from the very beginning. Thank you for your support!

  • @Perilous
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    2511 months ago

    An instance run so good that it caused me to start using my porn account as main account deserves some love and support. Bought a sponsor package on throne.

    • @yayOPMA
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      511 months ago

      Thank you for your support buddy 🙏

  • @Th1ckAndCreamy
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    211 year ago

    I set up a Patreon subscription. I am a DevOps Engineer. If you ever need to move to a more distributed setup let me know.

    • @yayOPMA
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      81 year ago

      Thank you for your support! But to keep costs low, we had to keep for one server for now. But you’re in my mind if needed :)

      • @gabrielesilinic
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        21 year ago

        I don’t know if you already run on docker, but you could run on docker in order to simulate a distributed setup and be able to move the various pieces in and out as needed, also portainer and traefik are very nice for this, if you create a common network for all containers with a bit of docker compose magic you have a plug and play kind of setup

      • @SecretLemmyUser_
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        -11 year ago

        If u need it I have a HomeLab where I can host an instance of it

    • @enki
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      11 year ago

      Same. I’m happy to answer any questions or assist with the infra. This is basically what us idiots DevOps/SRE do on a daily basis: cut costs while improving performance and reliability.

  • El Chango Unchained
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    1 year ago

    I joined this instance for the NSFW, but at the moment it is the best performing instance I am on, so I am subscribing to all my tech communities through here as well. In other words, my NSFW account is now my main account. LOL. Going to Patreon for sure.

    EDIT: I signed up for $5/month. Keep up the good work!

    PS: Would you mind sharing your docker-compose file? I want to deploy a lemmy instance on GCP to help strengthen the network.

    • @yayOPMA
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      51 year ago

      Thank you for your support! But I really didn’t changed the compose file. I just used default ansible setup for simplicity.

  • @BlackSkinnedJew
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    1 year ago

    I suggest you to use XRP, TRX and LTC for cheap transaction fees and speed, and check out a VPS provider called IONOS.

    Edit: I suggest you BTW to open an OnlyFans and Fansly account for the instance and try to carry creators to the platform maybe you can make a special community for them and get some extra donations.

    • @yayOPMA
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      21 year ago

      Do you have a particular coin for this in mind? I don’t want to seperate this much.

  • @howmanycats
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    141 year ago

    Just a headsup if you’re trying to get on Open Collective, it looks like that might be another patreon scenario:

    • @yayOPMA
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      Yeah I checked TOS too. I thought it’s about posts shared on campaign page. Also Open Collective Europe didn’t reject us. But you are right. I’ll contact about this to Open Collective and fiscal host.

  • @luckyboy
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    121 year ago

    Thank you so much for hosting this instance. I appreciate it and will help with a small contribution of a few dollars per month from now own. ❤️

    • @yayOPMA
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      121 year ago

      Thank you! Every dollar is important and you can be sure that we will use every single dollar for this instance.

  • @ResidentBloodBoner
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    101 year ago

    Would it be possible to set up Liberapay as a payment method? I don’t know their policy on NSFW-related projects, but I really enjoy it as a payment option since they don’t take anything off what’s donated, give many different donation options, and is run by a non-profit that made the site’s code open-source.

    • @yayOPMA
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      121 year ago

      Unfortunately I can’t create account there since I can’t use PayPal nor Stripe.

  • BigBeautifulWaffle
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    101 year ago

    I would gladly send Monero [XMR] if you had the option.

    • @yayOPMA
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      Hmm. Let me check MetaMask for it.

      Nope, MetaMask only supports Ethereum or derivates. I’ve used MyMonero for it.

      • BigBeautifulWaffle
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        61 year ago

        Maybe I’ve already did? I have plausible deniability ;) The Monero blockchain is not transparent.

        But for the sake of transparency, if the admins want to, they can post a monthly summary of XMR donations.

        • @yayOPMA
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          51 year ago

          Of course. I’ll check what I can do.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Of course, I just wanted to let you know in case you didn’t see it. A monthly summary would be appreciated

  • @Filth
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    It is done. Via github if that is okay.

    • @adminA
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      61 year ago

      Thank you! Github is the best among these options

  • @samokosik
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    May I ask where the server is hosted?

    • @yayOPMA
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      101 year ago

      Currently Ukraine. May change in the future.

      • @samokosik
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        51 year ago

        Oh nice. And what platform do you use?

        • @yayOPMA
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          81 year ago

          I can’t say that for a while. I don’t want to doxx myself.

          • @samokosik
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            41 year ago

            I don’t know how saying what platform is used to host the server will affect its security that much.

            For example, the fact you are using cloudflare is public and doesn’t really harm you.

            • @yayOPMA
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              61 year ago

              Yeah it doesn’t but its a shield in front of host itself. We’re not doing anything illegal here but still.

              • @thepianistfroggollum
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                21 year ago

                I mean, it would be trivial to find for anyone who cares to run a ping and do a Google search for the IP it resolves. You’re definitely not shielding yourself from any government agencies by keeping it secret.

                • @howmanycats
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                  111 year ago

                  The reason they won’t reveal is because Pornography is flat out banned in Ukraine, if we revealed this someone might report us and get the host taken away again, similar to what happened when the server used Hetzner.

      • arc
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        31 year ago

        Probably a really stupid and ignorant question, but how are you hosting in Ukraine when they are at war?

        • @yayOPMA
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          131 year ago

          They need money now more than before. Why would they stop exporting stuff?

        • @Securely9477
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          51 year ago

          People still live, work and study over there. The country is big and the front is away from many people lives.

  • @whoops69hehe
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    81 year ago

    Done via GitHub, thanks for your work!

    • @yayOPMA
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      51 year ago

      Really appreciated! Although Github works for now, we may change it in future btw.

  • Sarothica
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    81 year ago

    Thank you for doing this in the first place! Do you maybe have PayPal? Otherwise I’ll look into Patreon 😊

    • @yayOPMA
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      91 year ago

      You’re welcome! I really wish I had a PayPal account but unfortunately not :/