My atavistic public broadcasting training wakes up again. Hence, a "pledge break."
What made the bird thing many us of fled so awful: hopelessly conflicted objectives. Society loses when society's best interest is subordinate to scraping money.
Not here. Mastodon is a public service run by the public for the public interest.
But money is still in the picture.
If you're able, find your local instance "About," find "Contribute," do that.
Seconded.
For all who are able: find your instance "About" page, then the "Contribute" link, then do that.
That's the "thank you" in Thanksgiving.
And for those who can make the choice, stepping forward will help make life better for others who don't have the freeboard at this moment. -Everybobdy- gets rewarded. Win-win-win.
Also if one is able, find "About" for your instance, find "contribute," do that!
This is the product, not us.
@mike If you're able, find the "support with money" page for your favorite instance. Do that.
More bio: long ago I was in public radio management here in the USA. Here at scicomm I see a familiar landscape. There are similarities between Mastodon and public broadcasting in the US.
The difference: growing use of this medium means growing operations costs.
US readers may sense where I'm going: with no commercial support, it's up to -us-to make our media preferences possible.
If you're able, support -your- medium: https://scicomm.xyz/about/more#support-this-instance
Doug Bostrom