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Would the Beehaw community be interested in some pay-it-forward action? (beehaw.org)
submitted 10 months ago by admin@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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Currently, we have $6,500.91 in our hopper.

It just seems weird having all of those, mostly, unused funds sitting there doing nothing.

I just wanted to start the conversation about the possibility of paying-it-forward in some capacity. For example, a certain percentage of monthly contributions could go to a charity.

What are your thoughts?

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[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Does the lemmy project have a foundation like blender or godot? Might not be big enough

Some charity donations would be cool, maybe each month a different community could vote for a charity

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah but doesn't beehaw want to move away from Lemmy? Doesn't seem like it's in their best interest.

[–] admin@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

...behave want too nice away from Lemmy?

^^^ Brand new sentence!

We are discussing moving Beehaw off of the Lemmy platform, yes.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I'd rather Beehaw didn't leave Lemmy outright; but I can hardly fault anyone for looking into other alternatives and spinning them up alongside the current Lemmy instance, getting that new thing up and thriving and then slowly migrating away from giving Lemmy so much attention.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Hah, I use swipe, and my vision is dying. I get so many typos these days.

[–] JohnDumpling@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Hmm, maybe some forum platform would be a good alternative? I feel like the Reddit format of Lemmy focuses more on news, rather than the forum format which is more about deeper discussions... Just an idea.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago

Well yeah, but I don’t really want that

[–] StereoTypo@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I like the idea of a rotation of charities.