Post #2254298

2025-11-18 08:06 UTC

We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever grateful for. We still have a large funding need for 2026, so please consider making a donation before the year-end if you’d like us to continue building and improving Mastodon https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate (12/13)

Replies (12)

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social 2025-11-18 08:06

Most importantly, thanks to everyone here, to the whole community. I promise to always put the humans here first and to keep this a safe space for you, no matter how you express yourself and where you come from. I will treat my new position with the most respect. Let’s make Mastodon and the Fediverse even more beautiful than it already is <3 (13/13)

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@jik@federate.social 2025-11-18 15:51

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social ??? [EDIT: It's working again, just donated!]

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@rauschma@fosstodon.org 2025-11-18 17:58

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social One small idea for getting more donations—supporter badges: They reward donors and tell other that they can donate, too. Another option may be Wikipedia-style donation campaigns for servers.

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@3draven@mtdn.anyqn.com 2025-11-18 18:01

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social @rauschma@fosstodon.org уже

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@hyc@mastodon.social 2025-11-18 18:51

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social what teams do you compete with?

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social 2025-11-18 22:55

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social Hi Felix, I'm hopeful about your/the board's appointment, BUT can we make something akin to a Bill of Rights for Mastodon users, so that we can create a lasting, binding, regularly reviewed structure to make sure that #enshittification doesn't gradually occur? Having a Mastodon Bill of Rights that is durable and binding would be a GREAT selling point for Mastodon, and would help to cement the core beliefs of a healthy, durable culture for the site. https://mastodon.social/@KraftTea/115571444527506544

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@rsx@mastodon.social 2025-11-19 09:00

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social I've tried it several times and gave up everytime. I'd love to have just an IBAN to send money directly.

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@leobard@digitalcourage.social 2025-11-19 16:05

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social thank you for asking for Donations for Mastodon Development. @digitalcourage@digitalcourage.social , we have a good deal that I pay €1 per month for your hosting. Does this also include that @digitalcourage@digitalcourage.social pays Mastodon devs? How much would every user have to pay for hosting and development to make it sustainable? I would prefer a simple model where I just pay my normal fee to my hoster and the hoster pays forward to the developers / maintainers. I see the users and servers are currently divided into "you may donate but you can freeride" and "you must pay". I prefer a fair model where all users see the value of mastodon and thus are ok to share the cost and must pay. This distributes the cost amongst all users.

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@padeluun@digitalcourage.social 2025-11-19 22:25

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social Heisser Tipp: schreib das auch auf Deutsch ;)

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@ay@m.indefinitely.social 2025-11-20 03:36

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social You probably know, but team 100x size is not 100x faster or better, rather a scam of growth for the same VC. Stay small :)

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@acb@mastodon.social 2025-11-28 08:20

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social @codeinabox@hachyderm.io would there be any possibility of tax deductible donations rolling out to other countries?

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@lutindiscret@mastodon.libre-entreprise.com 2025-12-01 19:15

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social IIRC instagram was 13 people when facebook bought it so 14 is not skeleton (and they had tens of millions of user)

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