Deviant OllamNov 18, 2022

So, I definitely want to see Mastodon remain healthy and continue forward, but I wouldn't mind if someone could explain this to me a little more...

https://atomicpoet.org/objects/edff069b-bc28-4b18-ac37-a3173723c31e

... Aren't the posting and operational costs associated with the Fediverse borne by all the individual instances? What costs does the overarching org have? (Not being snarky, I'm sure they exist, I just wish I understood more)

Show threadDeviant OllamNov 18, 2022
Ahhh... I was only thinking of the hosting costs which are going up with increasing user load, but there are of course also the overall development costs of the project. For some reason I thought it was an open source platform but in fact it is a project with paid developers and such.
Show threadDouglas Kilpatrick

@deviantollam As far as I can tell, the linked Patreon supports:
* The development of the open-source project

AND ALSO

* Hosting mastodon.social

I'd suggest biasing giving toward your instance first, and hit up the main patreon second.

Since I'm on that instance, I hit that one first.

Nov 18, 2022 at 11:47pmWeb