Chief TWiT Nov 19, 2022

I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.

It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.

It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.

Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.

Show threadMaxi 12x 💉
@leo Yesss!
Especially this Atomicpoet guy has been spreading severe misinformation about 'Mastodon’s survival is at stake': https://chaos.social/@frumble/109368049465410897
Maxi 5x 💉 (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Guy, you talk like Eugen is developing all this by himself. Mastodon is a community project with lots and LOTS of merge requests. I will explain this in simple language for you: Other developers develop features and bug corrections and submit their code to the project leader, who is accepting it, after the wider developer community of hobbyists has discussed about the technicalities. You don’t need millions to *develop* Mastodon.

chaos.social
Nov 19, 2022 at 6:32pmWeb