i keep seeing people bring up creating a sort of "premium" subscription for esmbot to help for server costs and stuff, but like what would that even do? i don't want to sacrifice the open nature of the project, and i don't necessarily want to be seen as a sellout

that being said any way to help pay for that stuff helps, it's just that i don't know how to handle that ethically outside of donations

another thing: i've been considering setting up a liberapay or kofi page alongside my patreon, kofi or something like that is probably more likely however