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.

[–] nxlemmy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

keeping track of costs and funding should be implemented on mastodon ui Open Coilective founder said she will look into implementing a health bar type element synced with the Open Collective api on their mastodon. wage transparency is something capitalists kept forbidden for a reason. im surprised the hyper capitalist crypto people dont have the balance from hyper communist coders making open source sustainability super easy and cool.

[–] JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Patreon, GoFundMe and other such services show that the average person is willing to pitch in a few bucks a month to something/someone they support. Already most of the larger mastodon instances either have financial backing through a corporation/non profit (vivaldi social for an example) or are donation run (mstsn.social for example).