making an instance into a business is one way of ensuring its long term success
when other instances are struggling with "why is no one donating" at least poast, if it is a business, can do things like write off instance expenses as business expenses
Im 99% sure graf said he doesn’t pay taxes on any of the income poast receives lol, he thinks its exempt because they’re “donations” (that’s not how it works).
So now looking into 2022 gifts and income tax document: (https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cra-arc/formspubs/pub/p113/p113-22e.pdf) Graf can only claim for Gifts of capital property. Since he claims he needs equipment (server and server parts) for his "business" Problem with that is they have to be "non-cash gifts" or Gifts of kind.
From what's publicly posted people can donate via his wallets.
While Canada allows crypto to be donated, IT MUST BE to an approved Canadian organization, specified by the list in the first link. Else, you have to pay taxes on your crypto venture.
What if a person was to give up on the idea of "donation" altogether and just make their instance and other services pay-for-play, like a monthly fee scheme?
Then you are paying a shitty service version of 4chan. Though that is another way to make money 🤣
But users can just migrate to other instances for practically free... if you aren't the instance owner. Not the best selling point.
Maybe a "premium" user subscription lmao! You gain a badge, exclusive Daniel emojis, and extra warning if you are "breaking" (** cough cough pissing off graf cough**) the rules.
I’m not sure, I don’t download stuff from fedi lol. But I can tell you that graf went out of his way to scrub certain accounts, like g117ch. I’m p sure even users that were banned or that “deleted” their account still had stuff in the leaks. I think it’s a safe bet that there is between the PPN and BPN tho.