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Mastodon being useless to advertisers is one of the biggest selling points (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] fit6529@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's hope that Mastodon instances will be able to work on donations. Otherwise who knows what happens. Servers cost money.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

Seems like crowd funding has been working pretty well so far, and I think that's really the right model to pursue. I pitch in a couple of bucks for the server I use, and it only takes a small percentage of the users to do that to make this viable.