If you use Mastodon; please pay for your use. Please.

This is not the corporate web of Twitter and Google. No company is paying for your use of this service. Your use of the service is not being sold to ad companies.

You use it? That is costing your admin owner literal actual money.

Pay for things you like. Or they go away. Or they stay but get taken over by exploitative people that will eventually destroy it.

Please, find your instance owner and pay them some money.

Thanks.

@mattwilcox I commend people who operate Mastodon servers as much as anyone else.

But if an individual-run instance with 14.000 people is basically in the red every single month, then this is not a sustainable way of running a Mastodon instance.

There is a systemic issue that needs to be resolved ... not begging users to help every month.

@soc @mattwilcox In contrast to the tone of this post and your comment (sincerely no offense intended), in Stux's own words:

@not3ottersinacoat Yeah, Stux is a good person. But the point is that *way too many people* decide that "the host of the party being generous" means *they* can just not contribute and it's OK. When they absolutely could, and should. @soc

@mattwilcox @not3ottersinacoat @soc Sorry for tapping in..

There's a little two sides of this, I very much feel ashamed for asking these donations and would love to just pay it all myself and dont bother you all.. But.. with the current size of most of the services i run, it's a little too much at this point for me to pay alone. At this point servers costs about 4-5 times our home rent so.. yeah

@stux Please do not feel ashamed. There is nothing whatsoever to be ashamed about. Rather the opposite. @not3ottersinacoat soc

@mattwilcox @not3ottersinacoat ️ I do always try to put the tone on "if you can donate" and not forcing in any way

It kinda breaks my hearts when people say something like "sorry i cant do more"! Never apoligize for helping out, every bit helps