It’s kind of funny. I run a Mastodon instance. I keep it small so I don’t have to spend more than about twenty bucks a month to keep it running. Pocket change,

It’s kind of funny. I run a Mastodon instance. I keep it small so I don’t have to spend more than about twenty bucks a month to keep it running. Pocket change, really. And yet my users regularly poke me to set up a Patreon, so they can help me cover the cost for it. Hell, I paid for Livejournal back in the day, before it turned into a thing that had to expand user numbers at all costs, and had to try and pay the rent of multiple Bay Area employees, and started putting in ads.