@accretionist@sexybenfranklin@aral About the tip jar problem: this is a real issue. Mainly based on the fact that people don’t value this here. Hopefully being forced to pay for Instagram to get rid of increasingly annoying ads will help them see.
To me Mastodon has more value than say NetFlix. I spend probably 20x more time on it. Yet I pay less for it. And that’s paying 9€/month hosting my own instance.