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Written by Mastodon on 2024-12-10 at 23:06

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! 💙

Help us reach our campaign goal: https://givebutter.com/givingmastodon

[#]GivingTuesday

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Written by Rob Shearer on 2024-12-10 at 23:16

@Mastodon can we please not use a tip economy as a business model?

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Written by Amsel/Professor Pootis on 2024-12-11 at 03:14

@rvcx @Mastodon Its a nonprofit

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Written by Renaud Chaput on 2024-12-11 at 09:43

@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!

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Written by Sab on 2024-12-11 at 10:22

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

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Written by Evan B🥥ehs on 2024-12-11 at 12:30

@renchap @rvcx have you seen the KDE donation notification? Basically, KDE added a notification that appears once a year (and can be disabled) asking for donations, and it dramatically increased donation revenue: https://youtu.be/5vivHquoiAc

Unfortunately, these notifications work best in December and by the time all the instances update it probably would’ve already past. Still, for next year I think it’s worth considering :)

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Written by Renaud Chaput on 2024-12-11 at 12:48

@eb @rvcx we started building a similar feature in our official mobile apps, and are looking to build it for web, but it is a bit more complex because we don’t want to cut out the instance admins from donations so we would like to have a way for their user to donate to both the software project and their instance

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Written by Orang Tersesat on 2024-12-10 at 23:44

@Mastodon @bandarbaru_1 kesulitan dalam translate bahasa ke bahasa indonesia.

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Written by Erwin on 2024-12-11 at 04:14

@Mastodon so because X will become an 'everything app' (doubt it), there is need at mastodon to hire a fulltime lead programmer that works on moderation tools and blocklist support?

If those features are indeed so underdeveloped, won't it be much more apt to organise summer of code style initiatives or feature pledges rather than job positions? Now it is just asking for company growth because X bad.

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Written by Nemo_bis 🌈 on 2024-12-11 at 06:58

@oddly As a former GSoC mentor and GCI admin, I can tell you it's a lot of work. The Mastodon project has limited capacity, I doubt they'd manage at the moment; maybe in a few years from now. (Looking at the backlog of issues and open patches, it's getting better.)

[#]MastodonGGmbH #MastoDev

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Written by Erwin on 2024-12-11 at 08:57

@nemobis thank you for the info, that is really interesting. Would such a position need to be filled permanently or is the asked amount so high bc of one-time costs?

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