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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25251642

We recently crossed the first anniversary for many of us on Lemmy and the Fediverse, and we are thrilled to announce an important milestone: we have started a new registered not-for-profit organization! The organization is registered as ‘Federated Open Communications Canada’, and we will go by ‘Fedecan’ in our day-to-day operations.

Over the past few months, we have been working behind the scenes on the necessary paperwork, bylaws, and other administrative tasks to get the organization rolling. Thanks to the invaluable feedback from our previous check-in, we decided to take the leap and register federally, which will allow us to operate across Canada more easily. For more details, you can check out the FAQs on our new website.

Resuming Donations

With this important step completed, we are now ready to resume accepting donations. We have set up several donation options to accommodate different preferences on convenience and fees. Our first priority is to reimburse those who have been covering server and other costs, and to set up regular financial updates. We are open to adding more donation options, so please let us know if there is an option you prefer.

Our current costs

  • Server hosting - $150/month
  • Domains registrations - $50/year
  • Non profit requirements - $500 one time

Our Next Steps:

  • Reimburse individuals who have covered server and operational costs and to set up more regular financial updates
  • Collaboratively creating guides and learning resources about Lemmy and the Fediverse (ex. how things work, data/privacy details, and best practices for moderating or running instances, etc.) + translations
  • Exploring other platforms to run. Some that are on our radar include Sublinks, Pixelfed, and Matrix
  • Developing logos, colours, and other branding details based on ideas from the community

What we want to know:

  • Do you have any questions, comments, or concerns? This will also help us expand our FAQs
  • Which other platforms would you like us to explore?
  • Do you prefer any other donation method?

We want to help build a better online experience for everyone, and that requires an organization with a strong foundation. This should be the first step in that process.

Thank you for everything so far, and we look forward to seeing you around! 🥳

The Fedecan Team

  • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
    57·
    4 months ago

    It’s a good development to see fediverse getting organized better. The burden of hosting a lemmy, mastodon etc. site should not lie on a single person.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      20·
      4 months ago

      I have been saying “Fede” (as in federated) + “Can”, but I don’t think we’ve had any discussions on that :)

      • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
        171·
        4 months ago

        Aha, yeah, you’re not the first and won’t be the last to opt for Fede over Fedi.

        Question though. Don’t the accents change the sound from e to eh? I thought it was a place on the Canadian stereotype of ending sentences with eh?

        Sorry if this comes across as pedantic, I’m genuinely curious and taking an interest. Consider it a learning moment for me. 🥺

        • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          111·
          4 months ago

          Sorry if this comes across as pedantic, I’m genuinely curious and taking an interest. Consider it a learning moment for me.

          No worries, they’re good questions 😄

          I’ll have to get someone else to weigh in, since I’m not all that confident on how each Canadian accent might pronounce it, since certain words have varying pronunciations across the country. This could be a fun question for our census at the end of the year!

            • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              8·
              4 months ago

              I’m confused, I don’t pronounce it fed-uh-verse or fed-eh-verse.

              It’s very much fed-ih-verse, where the vowel is pronounced the same as in feddit. I tried to explain this using the International Phonetic Alphabet but that shit is extremely confusing to me.

              However you do make a valid point about lazy American pronunciations. They tend to become dominant regardless of whether they are technically correct.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
    22·
    4 months ago

    You love to see it. Great stuff and I hope this is the way forward for more parts of the Fediverse.

  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    Wow, that’s awesome!

    Thanks to everyone who put in the work to make this happen, I know that it’s quite a lot of red tape to get this stuff set up.

  • God_Is_Love@reddthat.comEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    This is so awesome!!

    I donate monthly to the instance I’m signed up with and I hope more of them follow suit with what you guys are doing!