Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins
by robin_reala on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:05AM
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It’s worth checking if your instance accepts donations to defray running costs. E.g. mastodon.social gets funding from the Mastodon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
There are also interesting instances like social.coop that are run like a cooperative – you join and are expected to donate monthly, as little as $1, and in return you get democratic control over the instance. It can be a cool incentive to "donate"/invest in the instance.
Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins
by UncleEntity on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:10AM
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> Only a couple of years back Mastodon UX was too poor to be usable, but it has grown leaps and bounds now.
I see strong parallels between this and blender when I was active in the community around a decade ago.
Everyone nowadays takes blender seriously as a contender in that market now so keep the faith, peeps.
Mastodon might not be the next twitter, but maybe it has already succeeded as a refuge for people not wanting to be on twitter. The bigger problem mastodon has is that its servers are running full to take on new people.
We have been running a few instances of mastodon which now have more space for new users. Link in my bio if anyone wants to use them, but might run out anytime.