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I have thought about, what if we set up a similar gold system that donated money to the Lemmy software, and the instance owner to help cover costs? I'm sure we'd collectively ruin it though.
I think this could be a good idea. As Lemmy gains traction it will get more expensive to maintain an instance, grossly so for the "main" instances. People can donate directly, but a reward system could help improve donations.
I think that's an interesting idea to have some visible reward system which then just dumps the money ih the admins lap to help run the instance.
Isn’t this how Reddit gold originally was presented? No ads, perks like the lounge, and if I recall right how much server time you’d contributed, along with the impact of daily contributions and etc
A federated gold system would be difficult because we would need a way to stop an activitypub server from sending fake gold
Nostr have a adopted a system for this. It would be cool to integrate the Lightning Network into Lemmy as well!