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Donating to Lemmy NSFW

2y 11mon ago by lemmynsfw.com/u/yay in lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

We are currently the 3rd largest Lemmy 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:

Donate to the team

lemmyposter212 does heavy lifting by moderating the instance. Therefore, if you want to donate to him individually, you can use the ETH address below.

  • 0xba69716dFa94685bE1302f0f875E8fAA8c180fC2

Financial status

This table is no longer updated and will be deleted in the coming months.

datedescriptionUSDETHXMR
2025-07-19+ donation205 (+10)0.01450.9264
2025-07-18+ donation195 (+5)0.01450.9264
2025-06-28+ donation190 (+10)0.01450.9264
2025-06-27+ donation180 (+10)0.01450.9264
2025-06-25+ donation170 (+20)0.01450.9264
2025-06-25- load balance server1500.01450.9264 (-0.0413)
2025-06-14- main server and media storage150 (-95)0.01450.9677
2025-06-02- load balance server2450.01450.9677 (-0.0370)
2025-05-27+ donation2450.01451.0048 (+1)
2025-05-26+ donation245 (+5)0.01450.0048
2025-05-26+ donation240 (+20)0.01450.0048
2025-05-25+ donation220 (+50)0.01450.0048
2025-05-19+ donation170 (+20)0.01450.0048
2025-05-16+ donation1500.0145 (+0.0055)0.0048
2025-05-16+ donation150 (+20)0.0090.0048
2025-05-15- main server and media storage130 (-95)0.0090.0048
2025-05-11- domain renewal225 (-17)0.0090.0048
2025-05-04+ thanks burger baron242 (+20)0.0090.0048
2025-05-04+ donation222 (+20)0.0090.0048
2025-04-25- load balance server2020.009 (-0.007)0.0048
2025-04-18+ donation202 (+10)0.01610.0048
2025-04-16+ donation192 (+20)0.01610.0048
2025-04-16+ donation172 (+5)0.01610.0048
2025-04-16+ donation1670.0161 (+0.0073)0.0048
2025-04-15+ donation167 (+5)0.00970.0048
2025-04-13+ thank you radovic 🙏162 (+30)0.00970.0048
2025-04-13+ donation132 (+10)0.00970.0048
2025-04-12- main server and media storage122 (-95)0.00970.0048
2025-03-28- load balance server2170.00970.0048 (-0.0541)
2025-03-16- email credits217 (-50)0.00970.0590
2025-03-14- main server and media storage267 (-95)0.00970.0590
2025-03-12- media storage362 (-20)0.00970.0590
2025-02-23- load balance server3820.00970.0590 (0.0505)
2025-02-15- main server and media storage382 (-94)0.00970.1095
2025-01-26- load balance server4760.00970.1095 (-0.0528)
2025-01-20/ XMR to USD476 (+355.6)0.00970.1624 (-1.8001)
2025-01-15+ donation120 (+50)0.00971.9625
2025-01-14- main server and media storage70 (-94)0.00971.9625
2025-01-03+ donation164 (+50)0.00971.9625
2024-12-29- load balance server1140.00971.9625 (-0.0598)
2024-12-24+ dec overall, 4 donations, thx 🙏114 (+55)0.00972.0224
2024-12-14- main server59 (-75)0.00972.0224
2024-12-12- media storage134 (-18)0.00972.0224
2024-12-11+ donation1520.00972.0224 (+0.0106)
2024-11-28+ donation152 (+20)0.00972.0118
2024-11-26+ donation132 (+5)0.00972.0118
2024-11-25+ donation127 (+20)0.00972.0118
2024-11-24- load balance server1070.00972.0118 (-0.0707)
2024-11-16+ donation (from 11-15)1070.00972.0825 (+0.0569)
2024-11-16+ donation (from 11-07)1070.00972.0256 (+1 🙏)
2024-11-14- main server107 (-75)0.00971.0256
2024-11-12+ donation182 (+20)0.00971.0256
2024-11-12- media storage162 (-18)0.00971.0256
2024-11-08+ donation180 (+10)0.00971.0256
2024-11-01+ donation170 (+10)0.00971.0256
2024-10-25- load balance server1600.00971.0256 (-0.0770)
2024-10-17+ donation160 (+10)0.00971.1026
2024-10-15+ donation1500.0097 (+0.0073)1.1026
2024-10-14- main server150 (-75)0.0021.1026
2024-10-12- media storage225 (-18)0.0021.1026
2024-09-24- load balance servers2430.0021.1026 (-0.1270)
2024-09-14- main server243 (-75)0.0021.2296
2024-09-12- media storage318 (-17)0.0021.2296
2024-08-30+ donation3350.0021.2296 (+0.0318)
2024-08-26- load balance server3350.0021.1577 (-0.1153)
2024-08-16+ donations (one from July 29)335 (+20)0.0021.2731
2024-08-14- main server315 (-75)0.0021.2731
2024-08-12- media storage390 (-15)0.0021.2731
2024-07-26+ donation405 (+5)0.0021.2731
2024-07-26+ donation400 (+20)0.0021.2731
2024-07-26+ donation380 (+50)0.0021.2731
2024-07-25- load balance server3300.0021.2731 (-0.0729)
2024-07-14- main server330 (-75)0.0021.3460
2024-07-12- media storage405 (-25)0.0021.3460
2024-06-24- load balance server4300.0021.3460 (-0.0731)
2024-06-14- main server430 (-75)0.0021.4192
2024-06-13+ donation505 (+20)0.0021.4192
2024-06-12- media storage485 (-25)0.0021.4192
2024-06-06+ donation510 (+20)0.0021.4192
2024-06-04/ ETH to USD490 (+473)0.002 (-0.125)1.4192
2024-05-22- load balance server170.12761.4192 (-0.0861)
2024-05-22+ donation170.12761.5050 (+0.1442)
2024-05-21+ donation170.12761.3611 (+1)
2024-05-17+ donation170.12760.3611 (+042069 🚬)
2024-05-17+ donation17 (+20)0.12760.3190
2024-05-15- main server-3 (-75)0.12760.3190
2024-05-13- media storage72 (-24)0.12760.3190
2024-04-28+ donation96 (+50)0.12760.3190
2024-04-26+ donation46 (+20)0.12760.3190
2024-04-24- load balance server260.12760.3190 (-0.0993)
2024-04-21+ donation26 (+50)0.12760.4184
2024-04-15- main server-24 (-65)0.12760.4184
2024-04-10- media storage41 (-19)0.12760.4184
2024-04-09+ donation600.1276 (+0.06969 🙃)0.4184
2024-04-01+ donations60 (+25)0.05790.4184 (+0.1827)
2024-03-30- load balance server350.05790.2357 (-0.0890)
2024-03-04+ donation350.05790.3247 (+0.0420)
2024-03-02- main server35 (-65)0.05790.2827
2024-02-28+ donation1000.0579 (+0.0073)0.2827
2024-02-27- load balance server1000.05060.2827 (-0.1516)
2024-02-01- new server and email provider100 (-75)0.05060.3738
2024-02-01/ approximate initial value1750.05060.3738

I would like to clean up the old comments and give a summary here.

Donations via Open Collective

Unfortunately, we cannot use Open Collective because there is no fiscal host that accepts NSFW instances.

Donations via Liberapay or Patreon

Similar scenario to Open Collective. Payment processors (PayPal and Stripe) can ban adult sites at any time.

Donations with alt coins

It is complicated to support so many different coins. Therefore, we only support ETH, XMR as the main ones. You can still donate with dozens of different coins via Trocador. All donations you make there will be merged into our XMR wallet.

Instance size

As of April 10th 25, we have 54.3GB of database and 1.48TB of media storage.

Should I host my media somewhere else to reduce costs?

No you don't need to. The media cost is not as high as one might think. At least it is at a level that we can sustain as long as we can receive donations.

Distributed setup (Kubernetes)

Although I believe it will increase performance and reliability, I don't think horizontal scaling (with multiple servers) makes sense for an instance that receives very few donations relative to the number of users. Therefore, I personally prefer vertical scaling for now.

Server location

We currently host the instance in the Netherlands (at least part of it).

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Spend it on hookers ...

Use the money to generate more content... smart.

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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.

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

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”.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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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.

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

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

Have you checked IONOS?

I support you my friend both monetarily and conceptually.

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

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.

Thank you for your support buddy 🙏

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.

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 :)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

XRP

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

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🫡 good idea.

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. ❤️

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

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.

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

Why can't you use pp?

I live where it's banned :/

Also PayPal hates anything related to human sexuality

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

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Check the post again, they added a monero option

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.

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

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

It is done. Via github if that is okay.

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

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

Currently Ukraine. May change in the future.

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

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

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.

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.

Yes. No matter how bulletproof the server provider says it is, I will move it to the Netherlands. The current provider's prices are very good, but they cannot offer a cheaper alternative. We're going to switch to a cheaper alternative as Patreon shut us down.

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

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

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

Just subbed on Patreon! Question, are you holding off on upgrading the instance because of the issues with the search?

Thank you! I was waiting for captcha. But I'll upgrade today.

My instance admins upgraded and enabled application while they wait for the captcha. It's not ideal, but it will help keep the bot horde at bay for a bit

Where is the link to donate?

It's removed because I'll transfer instance to someone else.

I have been locked out of my NSFW account activating the 2FA function

I'm looking for it.

Thx so much

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Thx

Seems like the least I can do. Thanks for setting this up.

Done

Thank you!

Done via GitHub, thanks for your work!

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

Reddit had r4r communities, are we calling our communities L4Ls?

Didn't see a better place to ask this question.

There is almost 1000 communities, so there is a chance we have a community like that :)

Sent some etherium.

Thank you 🫡

I donated a couple euros now.

Appreciated 🙏

Tf happened here

wut 🤷‍♂️

"deleted by moderator"

Oh that! There were so many out of date comments asking for same thing. So I removed most of them and summarized all questions into one comment.

they’re all back 👍

Oh lol i thought it was like the purge

I think they just cleared out the old/historical comments.

I still don't understand crypto, but Throne appears to have worked fine. I look forward to an option with reoccurring automatic payments.

I'm trying auto recurrent donations but no luck yet :/ Still researching.

I'll donate in the morning!

Just saw we're down, donated on Throne to get us back in the green!

Thank you! 🙏

With GitHub sponsorship no longer an option are there any simple payment options available?Happy to support (was supporting at $10 a month) but would rather not learn crypto to do it

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Thanks, came back to this post to see if there were updates. I just got refunded today and was very confused. I do appreciate what you are doing and think there needs to be a place for NSFW content in the fediverse, and I'm happy to contribute a little bit monthly to help make that happen. I'll look forward to your upcoming post about it.

Appreciated 🫡

Thanks, I’ll keep an eye out

Thank you! People using lensdump, catbox.moe for this. You can still use this site tho.

It should be good old timeout issue. I’ll check it tomorrow.

Try a file that is smaller than 1MB in size, otherwise you will have to use an external image/video hosting site like https://catbox.moe/or https://redgifs.com/

I will fix this one. It's about timeouts.

Yeah I get this frequently too, it seems smaller files have a higher chance of being uploaded which makes sense.

What would be good options for me if I just want to use my credit card to quickly buy whatever crypto and send it to any address I want? I did look at some sites a couple of days ago, but they were more for trading and didn't seem too great for this use case.

I never got into crypto even though I'm a huge nerd, so I have no idea which service is trustworthy and quick'n'easy to use.

I registered to throne.com, which allows direct anonymous credit card donations. If they accept us, then you can use it if you want.

Just don’t jump into a topic you don’t know if you don’t want to learn buddy. I’ll fix this.

And to be honest, I’m not a crypto expert either. I just know basics and some technical details that I’m using on IRL work.

Used throne.com - hope it works :)

Thank you :) It's a very simple and nice site. I hope we can continue to use it.

Ah let's see where that throne.com deal goes then, that'd be neat.

But I honestly don't mind the learnin', I was more just soliciting for good tips for this specific use case since I figured somebody's bound to be more clued in already 😁

I know surprising amounts about the technical side of lots of cryptocurrency projects because in another life I've worked on sort-of-related things, but like the idiot I am I never bought all that many of anything and haven't "handled" them in ages.

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Oh Metamask does in-app onramps and offramps nowadays? Well that's pretty handy, it was still a pretty dumb no-frills "wallet" when I last used it but it's been a good while. I'll give it a poke! Thank you

Didn’t know GitHub sponsors was a thing.

Neat.

(Also: new sponsor).

If I can make one request (not that I feel you should be in any way honored to follow it up or prioritize it):

The local blur policy/implementation is horrible.

I want to just scroll through content. Everytime I log in I must update the settings.

http://wefwef.appdoesn’t even give me an option to adjust it.

We had local settings to auto expand, disable blur etc. but these settings has gone with the new update. I'm adding right now.

I'm not related to Wefwef or other apps, but you can try others like Mlem or Memmy.

Fully aware it’s unaffiliated, just that local settings was bad concept.

Yep. It's a cheap patch more than a feature. We have to modify lemmy, lemmy-ui, lemmy-js-client to achieve this feature to be able synchronise to server. @trusted_pizza@lemmynsfw.com made a pull request for this, but its still blocked.

Liftoff! app (beta) is my favorite for one-handed scrolling, if you gnome say’n. Double tap to zoom full screen, double tap twice to zoom to full resolution.

Sent some coins, thank you!

Thank you for your support!

What hosting provider are you using?

Got a Zcash address?

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Do you accept ETH on L2s? What about stablecoins?

I really don't know. I'm just using MetaMask for ETH. And not using stable coins because I don't know how to keep them locally, like MetaMask, MyMonero or XUMM. I really don't want to keep them on an exchange that has all my info.

Pretty sure MetaMask supports USDC and USDT no? Stable coins can definitely be kept in a self-custody wallet like other ETH tokens.

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Chipping in with $5/mo.

I can't see any comments on this thread , I think there's something really wrong with the update

Can you clear caches?

Yeah already tried, different browsers, computers, phone, etc, I can only reply to this because it's in my notifications

Same here. None of my posts are visible on my profile or the communities... only one I can see is from a comment reply in my imbox.

I actually can't see any posts on any of my subscribed communities.

Jerboa had a popup when I opened it saying something about this fedverse not being up to date or something.. not sure.

Also, I had to remake some posts in some of my communities, they were missing, like when you updated something's in the database for deleted or something

I really didn't changed nor deleted anything. Just updated the server. I wish I didn't did that, because it has some serious bugs.

yeah sorry when I asked about it I was kind of asking if you knew when you planned to, or if you were waiting on the glitches to be fixed, sorry if you felt rushed to upgrade because of my comment

How would I donate via Ethereum or Monero? I've avoided all crypto.

It's about your platform. For instance I'm using Binance, so I click Receive, choose type of coin, enter address, choose network (for me always default one), send.

Test

it’s working!

Guys, unrelated with the donations and budget health, it would be interesting to have a open thread for discussion on this community. I was about to post about a recent purge of nsfw subreddit s and could not find where to do it.

Original discussion: https://pawb.social/post/19590203

Hola por estar conociendo a gente nueva les tengo una regalo 😈

You should add dash, ltc and a few others to your donation list. I don't hold much eth or xmr. I'd definitely send you some dash.

I will add a middleman tool to cryptos that will add support for like 15 coins. Coz I can't use that much different coins.

Dash is one you can and should be using. It's supported by more than a few crypto pos that can be used to pay for hosting, etc. Plus they should be relaunching a debit card that will let you spend dash online or off.

Throw up an address and can shoot you a donation.

I installed Trust Wallet for this. Can you try with minimum amount to test this please? XhyDJx86o5XbwxeAazmqEtapaLJ7cpUcc5

Sent

Yep its working! Thank you adding it to the post now.

Set up a github sponsorship. Thanks for setting this up and maintaining it!

Damn that's impressive!

Hey i got a 404 trying to access that image, are you sure it still exists?

which image?

uhhh my bot should not have run on this post... sorry about that i found the bug that caused it and have since fixed it.

which image indeed xD

I was really surprised to see that youre using a .com-domain. That alone must be costing you a small fortune per year.

Domains cost like $9 a year.

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Is S3 more cost efficient? I have had experience with it being much more reliable and durable, but the cost in the long run could be higher than having it next to the service

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Maybe I'm misreading it, but if you are mainly looking for better pricings, isn't something like Backblaze B2 even cheaper?

I never used it, but when I was searching for a media host I remember it was the overall better one, pricing wise, being in the Bandwidth Alliance and all that.

But I seriously checked them a long time ago so it could be different, now.

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Doesn't it Amazon charge for data transfer? I.e the more requests you'll get, the more they'll bill?

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Interesting. Ive never checked on things through Cloudflare. Godaddy and Google charge like 3000 USD for a com domain

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What domain are you looking at that costs 3k