I want to start the conversation. 
"How can we help #Mastodon servers maintain independence and pay the bills?"
This is a great service. But we will need to pull together and help maintain it. This stuff isn't free. We are many. It's only a matter of time until we overcrowd the place and we also don't want ads.
Please post your answers below. Boosts are appreciated to get the conversation going.🔁
@thetitanborn reading the replies, agree on Wikipedia approach being annoying, esp after £££, but pester power does work & I'm sure Admins will have the means to +/- DM all users or pin a post to their home feeds(??)
Also if we non tech, end users realised what server etc costs are, it'd make the idea a bit more real & prompt more to willingly volunteer.
No promotion here is v nice & maybe that's it, like Apps on G-Play.
Ads may have to support instances costs, but we can pay to suppress them?
@thetitanborn another thing that may need more clarity for newbies / non techies.
Is the variant on the toot that does the rounds warning that payments to 'Mastodon' go to some seeming central place rather than the instance admins/owner.
If this is right then it is a put off for a couple of reasons I can think.
Ppl are more likely to support *their patch than the wider entity &
This apparent corporate Mastodon is not explained & seems the antithesis of the decentralised fediverse ideal.
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