Lemmy NSFW is a platform that has existed thanks to the efforts of Lemmy developers. Therefore, their funding is more important than ours. Every donation is appreciated 🙏

I should note that Lemmy (software) and Lemmy NSFW (instance) are not related with each other.

I would like to clean up the old comments and give a summary here.

Donations via Open Collective

Unfortunately, we cannot use Open Collective because there is no fiscal host that accepts NSFW instances.

Donations via Liberapay or Patreon

Similar scenario to Open Collective. Payment processors (PayPal and Stripe) can ban adult sites at any time.

Donations with alt coins

It is complicated to support so many different coins. Therefore, we only support ETH, XMR as the main ones. You can still donate with dozens of different coins via Trocador. All donations you make there will be merged into our XMR wallet.

Instance size

As of April 10th 25, we have 54.3GB of database and 1.48TB of media storage.

Should I host my media somewhere else to reduce costs?

No you don’t need to. The media cost is not as high as one might think. At least it is at a level that we can sustain as long as we can receive donations.

Distributed setup (Kubernetes)

Although I believe it will increase performance and reliability, I don’t think horizontal scaling (with multiple servers) makes sense for an instance that receives very few donations relative to the number of users. Therefore, I personally prefer vertical scaling for now.

Server location

We currently host the instance in the Netherlands (at least part of it).