Anne Sacoolas is to be sentenced at the Old Bailey this afternoon for causing the death of Harry Dunn, 19, by careless driving.

Your questions answered here:

https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/sacoolas-sentencing-today

A lot of Mastodon instance admins are either getting their first hosting bill or getting a very increased bill from extreme growth and usage. Some may be experiencing bill shock.

Please make sure your paying/supporting them!

Twitter was free because you were the product. Mastodon doesn't work this way.

Many instances list a patreon or donation links on their about page.

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.

I updated the Hub (https://hub.techhub.social) with the latest numbers.

I added the donations and balance section, with an estimate on how long we can run with current funding (at current cost).

I also added patreon as a source of donations via different tier level.
Reminder: donating doesn't give you any visibility, privileges or favors. You are merely helping keeping #techhub alive.

Thanks for everyone that has donated so far.

#donation #thanks