housepanther, 6 months ago

@jan 0 algorithms too! 😸

DanMetroArnold, 6 months ago

I'd rather give $16 to you @jan than Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. That way, I know my money will be used towards the platform instead of just sitting in a Billionaire's shiny little Piggy Bank! 🤣🤣🤣

Aedius, 6 months ago

@jan

Well Mastodon cost a little more that 0€ per month for people running the servers, give money to your admin if you can afford.

jfparis, 6 months ago

@jan
Well that is not correct! We must support with £€$¥ mastodon admins and developers for this to work.

I can get my own instance for a fraction of the twitter price and there are benefits in mutulaliation it can be even cheaper but Mastodon for $0 does not work
@PeteLittle1970

Tom_Huth, 6 months ago

@jan would like to make a donation for my server mastodon.online, but not via Patreon or any other US-based service.
Why?
I simply don't trust these greedy companies at all, especially as I know they are biased who they support or not. I know a bad example.
I would like to donate with a normal bank transfer as we know it in Europe.

RoteBlume, 6 months ago

@jan I pay patreon voluntarily🤣

Chris, 6 months ago

@jan Thanks, but for many admins and instance owners Mastodon ad free = $nnn+/month That’s why many rely on donations or ,like our instance, deliver Mastodon 💩free for $9,- a year. I would like to shout out rather than a shoot out for all instance owners in the form of heading to your instance’s donation page to make sure it will never have to go the route of advertisement ever. 🥳

m, 6 months ago

@jan That is wrong. Infrastructur always cost.

Mickrob9777, 6 months ago

@jan

Shout

philip, 6 months ago

@jan @GossiTheDog Heck even running your own Mastodon server is roughly ~$18/month.

I’d rather give that money to a hosting service and have a social media experience that I am truly the owner of, than giving it to Elon.

ranvel, 6 months ago

@jan Better content at the free one, too!

failedLyndonLaRouchite, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

@jan gonna go with what
https://mas.to/@awlnx@social.ffmuc.net
said

how on earth do admins pay the rather substantial costs of servers, moderators, etc etc ?

if you don't pay anything, then "tragedy of the commons" - people like me, who do donate are paying for free loaders who don't

now I can afford US $500/yr, and I know many cant: I am 100% ok with that, absolutely
but if you can afford it and you don't help ???????

andypiper, 6 months ago

@jan donations are welcomed, however.

deedeewms, 6 months ago

@jan don’t forget they take donations!

kkarhan, 6 months ago

@jan Cosnider donating the same amount to your instance admin...

brianstorms, 6 months ago

@jan

Legit news article link, please, re “Twitter ad free $16/month”?

BillMcGuire, 6 months ago

@jan

maybe a shout out, not a shoot out; they might be kind of skittish ..... carry on

rose, 6 months ago

@jan Mastodon with your dignity intact: $0/month.
Twitter with your dignity intact: not available at this time.

fnord23, 6 months ago

@jan What about Mastodon blue?😂

RodneyPetersonTalent, 6 months ago

@jan

Who the fuck is stupid enough to pay for Twitter?

IdahoLark, 6 months ago

@jan @sarahc I keep offering mine money but he won’t take it because it’s a small instance and he says it takes up very little of his time.

Darkrain, 6 months ago

@jan what the hell is a Twitter?

codepope, 6 months ago

@jan @sjvn I think they'd prefer a shout out (and donations)

trendless, 6 months ago

@jan infra costs our instance $0.22/mo per active user, or $0.06/mo per account. We've got some super generous users who donate far more than that, making it effectively cost-free for all the rest 👌

PiiiepsBrummm, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

@trendless @jan
When I look at the financial statement of the instance I use at https://meta.chaos.social/money#report, make some assumptions and do ballpark calculations, it is about 0,08€ per month and account.

So my yearly donation is good for more than 60 accounts. Or assuming a similar ratio of 1/3 of active users, I sponsor about 20 accounts. Feels good.

Edit: correcting calculation

trendless, 6 months ago

@PiiiepsBrummm @jan that's awesome! Also, looks like chaos's got a very good MAU-to-account ratio: https://fediverse.observer/chaos.social ('charts')

awlnx, 6 months ago

@jan this is sadly a lie :/. Someone has to pay for hosting and security updates etc. So please donate to your local admin!