Lemmy.zip's 1st Birthday Giveaway! (Winners have been drawn!)
Hello all!
To celebrate Lemmy.zip turning a whole 1 year old, we're hosting a small giveaway to say thank you for being here ❤️
We're giving away 3 prizes to 3 lucky winners. This will be 1 x £25 Steam giftcard, and 2 x £10 Steam giftcards.
The giveaway will be open for 48 hours from 19:00 UTC on the 9th June, to 19:00 UTC on the 11th June, which nicely covers our Birthday on the 10th :)
You can enter by making a comment in this very thread! Your comment can say or be absolutely anything you want (within reason!)
Once you've made a comment, you should get a message back from ZippyBot confirming you've entered and a ticket number. For transparency, at the end of this we'll publish the entry list and ticket numbers.
You must be a Lemmy.zip user to enter (comments from anyone else will be ignored!) and you will need a Steam account and be happy to send me your username so I can gift you the value via Steam. Your Lemmy.zip account must have been created before the 5th June 2024.
At the end of the giveaway, I'll lock the thread and Zippy will pull three random entries. The first username pulled will win the first prize (£25), and the other two users will win the other prizes (£10).
I've put a few FAQs in this spoiler tag if you want to know more:
FAQs
Q) Can anyone enter?
A) You must be a lemmy.zip user, have a steam account, and your lemmy.zip account must have been created before 5th June 2024
Q) Can I have a giftcard for a different platform, i.e. xbox or playstation?
A) Unfortunately not. Those platforms (to my knowledge) don't allow me to purchase a giftcard in the UK and you activate it anywhere in the world. Steam allows currency conversion on gifts.
Q) How quickly will I get my prize?
A) Steam requires that someone must be on a user's friend list for 3 days before giftcards can be sent, therefore I will share my Steam profile with the winners (or vice versa) and after 3 days of being friends on Steam, I will send the gift over. (Unless you live in the UK, in which case I can send you a code within 24 hours)
Q) I think my entry was valid, but I didn't get a reply from Zippybot with my ticket number. What do I do?
A) Send me a message asap! You can try commenting again too.
Q) Are Lemmy.zip user donations funding this?
A) No, just making it clear here that the donations to Lemmy.zip only ever go towards the server and Lemmy.zip infrastructure. The funds for this are coming from my wallet :)
Q) How does Zippy select the winners?
A) Zippy randomly shuffles the list of entrants in the DB. It then randomly shuffles the list again in Python. Then it randomly selects 3 winners from that double shuffled list. You can see the code for this here.
Q) What if something goes wrong?
A) If for any reason something goes wrong during the giveaway, it will be paused until it can be resumed. If too much time lapses, the giveaway will be restarted.
Congratulations to the winners!
@monoboy (£25)
@win95 (£10)
@anothermember (£10)
Signed up for Lemmy.zip because I thought it was a cool domain, but turned out to be one of the most well run small fedi servers I’ve ever had the pleasure of being a part of. Thanks for all that ya’ll do!
Writing from my Reddthat account as I don't need the giveaway, just wanted to wish a happy birthday to Lemmy.zip! You guys rock, I have an alt here that I use quite a lot, the instance is very solid!
I had decided to move to Lemmy.zip from Lemmy.world when they decided to be the big brother and censor c/piracy. It has almost been a year for me being on Lemmy.zip and I couldn't be more happier! Thank you for not censoring reasonable communities and running wild with admin power. You are much appreciated! (☞゚ヮ゚)☞
Happy Birthday! I'm glad I'm able to be part of this amazing community. It was the first Lemmy instance I tried, and I absolutely made the right choice.
.zip was always my favorite top level domain after I found out that it existed. But then it was nice to find a Lemmy instance that shared the admiration.
Thx for hosting this piece of the Internet.
Crazy that it's been a whole year already. This is a great instance, very well maintained, and I'm grateful for all of the hard work that goes into it.
I'm more of a newcomer to lemmy.zip (I've moved over to here from another instance in April), but I really appreciate your commitment to this instance, which really makes it feel special. I don't think I've ever been on a website with as incredible of an owner as you, @Demigodrick, and I'm very grateful to be part of this amazing community you've built.
Here's to another year of lemmy.zip, and the Fediverse as a whole!🎉
First off, there are laws in many countries governing giveaways. You could be violating local laws and it is likely that a large gift card will flag local tax authorities. Additionally the people who are funding Lemmy.zip may or not be ok with you spending it on random people. This could be interpreted as either misuse of funds or at worse money laundering.
The other problem is that when there is a transfer of something of value you can end up with false expectations. For instance, if I were to except I might feel that I owe something to you. On the flip side you also could end up expecting something that was not communicated. What happens if I were to accept it and then stir up a bunch of trouble? Would you feel betrayed?
The last issue is the fairness problem. The fact that it is random means that you could end up showing favoritism if the money ended up going to someone you interact with a lot. This maybe not be the case but it could still bread jealously and discontent. The perception of others is hard to predict especially with strangers. You might end up being on the front page of Lemmy as the most corrupt admin.
Moral to story, this is nasty can of worms. I will not partake in this as it is to much of a liability. I am also not sure what the end goal is anyway.
I really appreciate your time and effort but I feel like this will backfire. If you want to do something for the community consider hosting a community event or project. You could recruit some help to setup a fun community game. We have the canvas event game already but the sky is the limit.