Many Mastodon instance administrators have now received their first hosting bill.

Some of them have seen their bill significantly increase due to the crazy growth we have experienced. Some people may be dealing with bill shock.

Please be sure to support and pay them!

You were the product, thus Twitter was free. Mastodon operates differently.

On their about page, several websites provide links to Patreon or contribution pages.

Hey folks, just an FYI from one of the people who responds to your reports.

Hello and welcome to Mastodon where we are one server which receives traffic from other, federated servers.

When you create a report against a user it comes to us, the Macaw owners, and goes to the owner of the server which hosts the offending user. We can:
1. Mute the user (hide them from accounts that don't follow them)
2. Block the user (hide them from all accounts on our server)
3. Defederate from the server

And just like this Mastodon reached another milestone:

8 million registered accounts!

This growth-rate is absolutely mind-blowing and I think we all should take a moment to thank @Gargron and his team plus all the countless admins that are passionately working on this platform.

Thank you so much for creating this amazing community. You absolutely rock and I'm sure that this is just the beginning 🤟

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