The number of subscribers to this community is already close to half of the total amount of active users on all of Lemmy. Plus, as so many people said before (when complaining about the alien.top bots), the majority of people browse Lemmy by “all”. I really find hard to believe that going to other communities is going to move the needle too much in terms of reach.
If I were a scammer, I’d be a really dumb one. Do you really think that it would be a good idea to go through a platform like Github asking for $4/month? Or go through all the trouble to put together a real website, offering services were you pay through Stripe and can cancel or ask for a refund?
Honestly, because I don’t believe in the donation-based model. I’d rather have people believing in me and supporting my work by being actual customers of my business offer.