This will take place ~24 hours from now. Feel free to post and upvote questions beforehand in this post, as it will turn into the AMA tomorrow.
This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they’d like to myself, @nutomic@lemmy.ml , @SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml , or @phiresky@lemmy.ml about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today.
Will Lemmy ever have another source of income like official merch or will it rely on donations for the foreseeable future?
To add, recurring donations, no matter how small, help us plan for the future, as we can then reliably estimate how many developers we can support off them. One-offs donations and merch sales wouldn’t help us out in that regard.
Would people really pay for Lemmy merch?
I think they would, it would be super cool to do art competitions and have the community pick the designs, could do it once a quarter to help boost funding.
There was some discussion among the maintainers months ago regarding holding a contest for a new logo, but it never came up again. I think it would be a good idea.
There might need to be a revamp of the logo to make it a bit more appealing.
What I could definitely see happening would be instance-based merch, especially if the community feeling is strong.
Personally maybe with some better art, not with the plain mouse logo