Thank you, Mastodon community! 🎉
Thanks to your incredible support, this Giving Tuesday we’ve raised $10,438 (13% of $75,000 goal) for our ✨ Trust & Safety Lead ✨ hire!
There’s still time ⏳
Every contribution brings us closer to building a safer, more inclusive, open & free community-led platform where people, not profit, shape the future.
Thank you for donating, spreading the word & being part of this journey! 💙
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@Mastodon can we please not use a tip economy as a business model?
@rvcx As a non-profit, most of our revenue comes from donations. We provide a free service, and a free (as in Open Source) software, so I am not sure what other model could work here, but I am interested if you have alternatives to suggest!
While it must be frustrating at times, there is also something incredibly uplifting about how many people are using Mastodon seemingly without having the slightest idea about what open source is or how any of this works.
When I joined this platform it felt like 95% of the users were open source developers. That has certainly changed. And that's fantastic, despite some weird misunderstandings.
Thank you so much for taking so much time to communicate with the community, @renchap !
@rvcx
