The thing about "hundreds of platforms" is that they all have to be self-sustaining. And I have trouble believing that they are vs. just being maintained for fr

The thing about "hundreds of platforms" is that they all have to be self-sustaining. And I have trouble believing that they are vs. just being maintained for free and paid out of pocket as long as it's tenable. The number of patrons for the Mastodon Patreon has actually gone down from that 2022 report (9603 in 2022 vs. 9096 now) and the monthly Patreon revenue extrapolated to a year is 273k€, which is about 50k€ less than what the 2022 report has as (total from all sources?) donations. According to Graphtreon, paid members for the Mastodon Patreon are down 23% in a year and earnings by about 28% (https://graphtreon.com/creator/mastodon https://graphtreon.com/creator/mastodon). mstdn.social is also down by about 16% / 22% in the last year (https://graphtreon.com/creator/mstdn https://graphtreon.com/creator/mstdn). Mastodon.world seems to be doing better since all of their numbers are up compared to a year ago, although on a six-month window they are dropping 19% / 25% (https://graphtreon.com/creator/mastodonworld https://graphtreon.com/creator/mastodonworld).