The past few days have extracted a heavy toll from me. While it's nice to see your work finally taken seriously in the mainstream, the 12-14 hour workdays I've had to pull to handle everything is anything but...
I rarely talk about how tough this job can be, since I feel responsibility to only associate positive things with the project. But it is a lot of responsibilities, and a lot of stress, for what can sometimes feel like inadequate pay.
I do software development, devops, accounting, customer support, project management, product design, public relations, and moderation for 36K per year...
@Gargron even though Patreon has its issues, I'm going to support your efforts there. Many others should do the same. And when a better FOSS platform emerges to replace Patreon, we'll be primed to jump to it instead.
@lightweight @Gargron there is! Mastodon is on OpenCollective: https://opencollective.com/mastodon
Mastodon - Open Collective

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub

@jkbecker @Gargron interesting - thanks - I'm going to shift my contributions to that platform... which comes from NZ...
@jkbecker @Gargron ok - now providing a monthly contribution via OpenCollective rather than Patreon.