fair point - noone on reddit buys awards so that they can contribute to reddit financially - people do that to draw more attention to the kind of content they like. So I thought you could use that to get more money to people who can make use of it. So to the donors it wouldn’t primarily be a donation. if lemmy.world is doing well for now - that’s great for them, but there are many groups who can make really use it.
well liberapay pretty much exists to give people a way to contribute to the FOSS they support. What I was thinking of is not much more than a way to do just that, just in a way that is more engaging than the typical donation system
I see your point, makes sense to me - it gets bloated and meaningless when there are so many of them
certainly not everything is about money. but servers do cost money, and if we want to keep lemmy servers independent they’ll need some source of income.
Someone told me once they used ChatGPT as a tool to practice a language. I thought it was quite invovative