Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @Gargron as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the German non-profit, am a co-founder of the US 501c3 non-profit, and I have contributed to most of the fundraising success, which allowed us to expand the team.
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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •Congratulations on your new role. You really earned it. Wishing you a wonderful tenure
Do you know how much it would cost each user on Mastodon per year to support it if there was an annual fee/donation? Eg if every user donated €10 a year Mastodon could that more than cover costs?
Maybe people might be interested in an annual donation if affordable. Even if 20% donate €10 a year it might help a lot?
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Have fun with your challenging work. 👍 It is important that you reflect on your position. Mastodon is just one piece of software within the Fediverse and can only survive if you see the Fediverse as a community (and not as a Mastodon community) and argue accordingly. Nevertheless, good luck and every success!
Felix Hlatky
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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •[EDIT: It's working again, just donated!]
Philip Schroepel
in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47 • • •It should work as usual again.
Axel Rauschmayer
in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •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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in reply to Howard Chu @ Symas • • •Mark's Pipin' hot smart takes!
in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •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.
mastodon.social/@KraftTea/1155…
Mark Kraft (@KraftTea@mastodon.social)
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in reply to Roland Sommer • • •@rsx Sorry to hear that. If SEPA Direct Debit is an option, you can use it here (via our fiscal sponsor WE AID).
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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •thank you for asking for Donations for Mastodon Development.
@digitalcourage , we have a good deal that I pay €1 per month for your hosting. Does this also include that @digitalcourage 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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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •kommt das Häschen vorbei und fragt: Hattu IBAN?
Konnte ich leider nicht finden und am liebsten würde ich es halten wie bei allen Spendenempfängern machen: Einmal im Jahr zur Steuererklärung wird es in ein PDF gepackt und gut. Muss das Konto halt nur massenweise Überweisungen empfangen können ohne zu viel zu kosten. Dann verdient keine Plattform und man kann den Betrag, das Intervall und die Dauer selber bestimmen.
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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •how about stopping to increase the size of this server ?
but noo it prevent the dream of centralizing mastodon.
DO NOT DONATE TO THEM !! instead donate to the other server that struggle to grow.
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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •I’ve already stated what you do wrong in my opinion. You seem to prefer corporate structures and so you’re naturally thanking their CEOs (even the ones that do not play nice at all with the Fediverse — I’ve already mentioned it’s distressing you’re thanking Meta, but there’s some other really bad players there… let’s not name the vaporware man). Other important players of the Fediverse are not there at all because their structure is less corporate.
And I know that’s probably not a bad thing to you. Just a huge difference in how we see things I guess.
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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •@cwebber @evan @newsmast @michael @FreddieJ @bonfire @ivan @mayel @Flipboard @mike @john @ghost @activitypub.blog @pfefferle @rileytestut @altstore The respect is mutual ❤️
Thank you for mentioning me, it really means a lot.
I joined Mastodon in 2016 and wouldn't have started @pixelfed if it wasn't for the interest and support I found on Mastodon back in 2018.
I owe so much to you guys, and am forever your #1 fan.
Let's continue building the future together 🚀
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Congratulations on the role!
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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •congrats Felix! 🥳
And thank you for all your hard work @Gargron 👏
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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •but... instead of making a too looong rosary from toots,
consider increasing the character limit in one toot please 🤗
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And best wishes to you, Gargron, in all your future personal/pro endeavors.
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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •Congratulations on your new journey, Felix. You seem to be a smart, kind, and thoughtful person. That evokes a feeling of trust in me.
I love the fedi and volunteer as a moderator. I care deeply about it. So I’m keen to see how you move things forward.
Please always remember your words: “I promise to always put the humans here first and to keep this a safe space for you.” If you do that, you’ll do great.
@Gargron
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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •pleased to neet you, Felix.
Congrats for the promotion.
Sounds like you earned it.
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in reply to Felix Hlatky • • •Congrats and good luck! 💪🏽🙏🏽
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