@raphael @esk @thisismissem @mekkaokereke not necessarily. I think folks have a hard time understanding the value of services. especially when they're open source. people are terrible at value judgements generally.
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"In 2024, it cost $N to run a Mastodon instance with ~1000 active users for a year.@esk @thisismissem @mekkaokereke so if every active user gave us $5 a month we'd be pretty close to staffing a team.
that's surprisingly achievable. time to run some "for the price of a coffee month..." banners!
in case it's not clear I'm not suggesting this for realsies, but I am pleasantly surprised by how little, relatively, it would take to start paying folks for their time.