I've donated plenty to Lemmy with crypto, and the article you linked addressed none of the reasons I use it (privacy, anyone?). So while it's cool you're passionately against crypto, I think Lemmy is getting more out of it than it's lost
If the Lemmy admins adhered to everyone's request to "stop doing X and I'll donate", they would end up with zero more donations because people will always give another reason for not donating
Lemmy default UI should seriously consider a daily donation goal, similar to old Reddit. Implement a backend API to fetch the daily amount needed and the current amount donated, and stick it on the right hand side by all the trending communities. As a stats nerd, this would seriously motivate me to donate more.
Btw I would recommend leaving a note on the desktop saying something like COMPUTER_SPECS.TXT. I had Linux on my computers in school, and I was thinking "holy crap Linux is slow and old", but it turned out to be cheap hardware (and I didn't know better, back then)
Oh sorry, totally forgot, we blocked UK users from accessing the website to avoid a Jagex lawsuit. If you're on Linux you can still play the game via Flatpak
“The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen,” said Tim Doyle, Amazon spokesperson.