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The people who create and maintain this place are all volunteers.

There are no ads, no data being sold, no cryptocurrencies, no blockchains, no investors nor anything like that.

The only way this place gets the bills paid is because each server's owner pays from their own pockets, with help from user donations.

If you appreciate this place, donate something to your server. 🙏

Go to your server's website, click on "Learn More" and it will usually have a donation link there.

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Peter Mount

@feditips I pay by running my own server.

Yes it does make things harder to find stuff but for us geeks is the way to go.

Social networking should be fun but not at the corporate whim

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Col

@feditips For the newbies, how do we find out servers' websites? Is it as simple as typing in mastodon.social in to a search engine or whatever? I'm on the webapp.

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Maria Liv Gallery

@feditips I am a patreon for mastodon.social! 🌷

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YoWatShiinaEsq

@feditips thank you! Will do.

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emma

@feditips What about corporate sponsors? I'm a bit uneasy about gambling companies and the like funding things and having access to developers. How is their influence monitored?

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Jigme Datse

@feditips That is a bit of a by instance thing. I have seen ads, cryptocurrency on PeerTube relatively frequently. I'm not sure if the ads on PeerTube are actually paying bills of the instances or not, I suspect not. But the Cryptocurrency is intentional. And... some instances are OK with federating with that content, others are not.

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Justin McAffee

Hey Mastodon, I’m a #filmmaker interested in #deepecology, #socialecology #ecofeminism #democraticconfederalism. My recent work has focused on the conflicts between #renewableenergy and desert #ecosystems. Check out desertapocalypse.com to watch.

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ash

@feditips how can I change server w/o any change in username?

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Germán

@feditips There's also no moderation, so anyone can say any atrocity they want without consequences (to them) in their own instance.

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ildánach pcalico

@feditips

I've read a lot of your tips on your web page and have more to read and process.

I can't seem to add a banner photo to my profile page. the avatar space had an image icon so it was easy - click & my images came up. but there's no image icon in the banner area.
can you gove a hand please?

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