EDIT: DO NOT BOOST!

This post is nearly a year old, and boosting will simply spread misinformation. Mastodon now has substantially more funding, and has enough scale to handle its many users.

I would delete this post but my server is not letting me so I'm editing this to reflect that I wish for you to NOT BOOST!

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Right now Mastodon is only receiving appr. $21,000/month through Patreon.

This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.

Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.

However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!

Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the burden of those new accounts will mainly fall on server admins, will it not?
@evan @atomicpoet
Evan, you are right that the huge influx of new users puts a lot of burden on the instance admins right now and they need support (donations) for the server upgrades.
At the same the Mastodon software development, improvement and security also takes a lot of effort and also relies on donations.