@manlycoffee @J12t they do have engineers, and iirc, they have contributed to fediverse projects through collaborations.
No other fediverse project financially supports any other project (officially, to my knowledge).
Features that can't be federated are fine. Mastodon-glitch's local-only posts are one example, same with platforms with payments built in.
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