Comment on lemm.ee financials (June - August)
AzuleBlade@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I consider lemm.ee my home, and you guys my internet family. @sunaurus@lemm.ee on a somewhat personal note, I saw you mention in one of your updates a week or two go you were getting let go from your job, which coincided with some much needed home repairs. If you haven’t landed a new job yet, I’d like to throw some cash your way for personal expenses, and I’m sure others would too. I don’t want you working on keeping the instance running smoothly from the coffee shop down the road because your power or internet got turned off. If you’re in a rough spot, I kind of like the idea of doing a fund raiser on, let’s say 8/18 - 8/19 (UTC) where all one time Github and Ko-Fi contributions get aside for you and your family.
sunaurus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I really appreciate the kind message, but I’m actually not in a rough spot financially for now. Fortunately I have some savings, so assuming I can land a new job soon (and I already have several interview processes active now), I will be totally fine, no fundraiser necessary.
To be clear, I would find it extremely amazing if sponsorships ever increase to a point where the income would cover something resembling a full time salary (in addition to infra costs) - in such a situation, I would definitely switch to working on open source full time and paying myself out of the sponsorships, but I think that’s not realistic any time soon (if ever 😅)