Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.

A nudge to fund our future

We’re rolling out a donation banner in our mobile apps, to help us test funding options for the future of Mastodon.

Mastodon Blog (blog.joinmastodon.org)

@Mastodon I will uh just put out a post

Sm0ller instances also cost monie

@stux they do, we know, and we appreciate everyone running Mastodon! We are trying this as a first step and have ideas for ways to do this more broadly for other instances in the future.