@FourOh-LLC @Herbst At some point, someone allowed you to use their server, yes? You aren't self-hosting, correct? If you were, money would change hands through the usual methods. Economy of scale suggests smaller instances of 100 or less active users are probably the cheapest way to run things, since fixed costs and all that are a thing. If your server suddenly asked you to donate— asked, not mandated— would you feel offended? I find the idea of balking at the mere idea of asking for donations for a community funded project very odd. Graf puts hundreds, probably thousands, a month out of his own pocket for this, and the volume of people on this side of the fediverse is in no small part because of his project.