Financial support for Lutris has decreased by 40% since 2020, not sustainable
This is an excerpt from a post on the Lutris Patreon page a few months ago:
The slow and consistent decrease of financial support
On a less positive note, I’d like to address the painful direction the Lutris Patreon (and financial support in general) is taking. The current earnings of the Lutris Patreon is about half of what it was in September 2020. This was a time before the Steam Deck when Lutris was far less complete than what it is today.
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I fully understand that the current economic situation makes things harder for most to give to open source projects and can’t thank enough all of you who still make monthly donations! I’m slightly hopeful that the introduction of cloud saves in Lutris will change the direction the Patreon has taken. While self hosting your cloud saves with Nextcloud will be the default option, it will also be possible for $5 Patrons to host your saves on Lutris.net.
In any case, working full time on Lutris will soon come to an end since it is not sustainable and I will eventually run out of savings.
You can see a graph of financial support for Lutris on Patreon over time here: https://graphtreon.com/creator/lutris#
I'm from an instance that does not federate with lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works, so users from those instances won't see this post. If you think this news is worth sharing and you're from an instance that federates with lemmy.world, please consider sharing it on !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
why would one defederate from those instances?
Those instances defederated from lemmy.comfysnug.space. @neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space contacted them and a few others about refederating a few months ago; I don't know the current status.
Relevant threads:
lemmy.world's status last i heard was effectively "not a bug wontfix"
shi.itjust.works's status was "the issue is a hot topic rn check back later". I've sent another message but no reply so far.