I didn’t see your initial proposal. However I sympathise with this post and I really understand the frustration you’re feeling with the lack of donations, having seen it time and time again in the open-source space.
I was going to pledge that I’d donate once I had the cash available, but seeing how you respond to people in the comments is leading me to reconsider. You may not be demanding donations, but to me it does look like you’re attempting to shame people into donating with a challenging tone. Quoting one of your responses:
Anyway, now you know it as well. If you think that this is a worthy effort, what are you going to do about it besides commenting here?
I still want to support you if you’re going to pursue this, since I myself have a strong interest in Lemmy being GDPR-compliant, but I ask you that you please reconsider how you approach the people that can potentially be supporters of your efforts.