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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 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Please, tell me how "paying for hardware costs is enough"...

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you mean "so?" Maybe it does provide enough value. Not enough people know that they have to pay real money to keep the servers running. Thus the request...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I meant it as "So what if they ask for help? Do, or don't (donate)"

The initial post came off to me as a dig at the admin for openly asking for money.