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The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent (mstdn.social)
submitted 3 months ago by rglullis@communick.news to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Please, tell me how "paying for hardware costs is enough"...

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Seriously. If this is your main instance, set up monthly donations. Even if it's just 1$/£/€ or whatever. Times 16k that's $16,000+/month. I donate to mine every month.

The fediverse is free because someone else is paying for it out of their own pocket. Not because they're collecting and selling your private data. So do your part. It's for the greater good and the freedom of the internet.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well.

Users don't really know what admins are up to.

I'm 100% positive there's state honeypot instances, and Lemmy being what it is you don't even really need users on it to keep track of people.

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