Someone asks a fair question: How does donating to Mastodon help every other instance?

It means continued funding of Mastodon's app development. Every instance -- which is most of them -- benefits from this.

For example, Mastodon recently added the ability to edit your posts. And not just edit them, allow you to view logs of the edits! This was a paid feature on Twitter, but it's now FREE on Mastodon.

Every instance that updates to Mastodon v4.0 now has the edit feature. Thus everyone who's on an instance that runs Mastodon v4.0 can edit their posts.

There's a lot of additional work Mastodon needs, and this is why donating to the non-profit helps!