If you use Mastodon; please pay for your use. Please.
This is not the corporate web of Twitter and Google. No company is paying for your use of this service. Your use of the service is not being sold to ad companies.
You use it? That is costing your admin owner literal actual money.
Pay for things you like. Or they go away. Or they stay but get taken over by exploitative people that will eventually destroy it.
Please, find your instance owner and pay them some money.
Thanks.
@mattwilcox The image is a screenshot of an announcement post on a social media platform. The background is dark gray, and the text is primarily white with some links in purple. The post is titled "Announcement" in white text at the top. The content of the post is as follows:
"In 9 days new bills arrive for the servers, media storage and emails send. At this moment I am still a massive 660 euros short for this month (estimate). If you can and would like to help me out in paying these bills you can so via:"
The post then lists several donation links:
At the bottom of the post, there is a thumbs-up icon with the number "1" next to it, indicating one like, and a smiley face icon.
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