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What is a good text for the donation dialog in Lemmy?

The next Lemmy version will add a donation dialog, which is shown once a year to every user, in order to increase the amount of donations for Lemmy development. You can see the current text in the screenshot above and in the translations repo. You can also checkout the frontend PR. Is there anything you would change about the text?

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  • I 99% of the time used reddit, and henceforth Lemmy via a mobile client (Boost at the moment) and am curious how you could target me.

    There's also the other frontends like Photon that I use on my PC (1% time.....) that if I'm thinking right also wouldn't show it?

    Cheers for all your work, it's much appreciated!

    • That is true. You might see it if you use the default web interface once in a while, or app devs could also implement this feature. Anyway its better than nothing.

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  • Should be more obvious that this is for the project and not the instance.

  • Feels too wordy and impersonal. How about

    Support Lemmy Development

    Lemmy is developed by volunteers and provided for free. We do not track, advertise or charge you for profit. Nevertheless, our developers need money to pay their food and rent. If you like to use Lemmy and want to see it improved and updated, please support us with a donation

    Nutomic & Dessalines

    • Also I assume you'll fix the button alignment, because it's quite annoying

  • Here’s my two cent: changing color of donate button to green and hide button to orange would be better since primary color is green.

    • Orange is actually the primary color in the theme, although green (secondary color) is used much more.

  • Imho the best would be one that is customizable by the instance admins.

    • You mean to add donation links for the instance? That makes sense, but I fear that it would be too complicated for users. Admins already have many ways to put donation links eg in the sidebar and sticky posts, but for developers theres only a small button at the top which is easy to miss. And our donations have gone down a lot, now only 2400 Euro per month.

      • Well, I think a personalized message (maybe in the primary language of the instance) is more effective than some standard text thats everywhere.

        I think most instance admins realize that there is also a need to support the devs, and a single place that advertises both and can get linked from the sidebar might also be more bring more donations to the devs.

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