Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps.
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Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/
I feel that all Mastodon Administrators should have an option to place a non-intrusive (rotating) banner on their instance.
As in this case, it can be used to make users aware that funding is welcome for stability.
But I can also imagine that it is a way to attract some income from other parties. If their users do not like it, then those users can move to another instance that does not do that.
I would think positively about parties that support my instance.
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Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/
@Mastodon I will uh just put out a post
Sm0ller instances also cost monie
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I feel that all Mastodon Administrators should have an option to place a non-intrusive (rotating) banner on their instance.
As in this case, it can be used to make users aware that funding is welcome for stability.
But I can also imagine that it is a way to attract some income from other parties. If their users do not like it, then those users can move to another instance that does not do that.
I would think positively about parties that support my instance.
@paulschoe as mentioned in the blog post, we are considering ways to do this further down the line.
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@Mastodon I will uh just put out a post
Sm0ller instances also cost monie
@stux they do, we know, and we appreciate everyone running Mastodon! We are trying this as a first step and have ideas for ways to do this more broadly for other instances in the future.
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Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/
@Mastodon I suppose you will get a banner even if you are already donating monthly on Patreon?
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Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/
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@Mastodon I suppose you will get a banner even if you are already donating monthly on Patreon?
@jimmysjolund thanks for asking about this. We don't track or have a way to check that, so the simple answer is yes. It should only be one quick tap to dismiss the message, but we know it is not ideal when you're already donating. We appreciate everyone that supports us, and thank you for your patience! 🫶
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Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/
@Mastodon quick question, but for those on #patreon do they get to remove and not see these banners? Much rather stepup and support Mastodon rather than pay for #twitter or #bluesky I mean there is the @buyfromeu movement. Mastodon may not have the prettiest or easiest sign up (yet) but it will outlive twitter and maybe bluesky
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Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/
@Mastodon Well, the link to the donation page worked on me. Enjoy the 20 euro and keep up the good work!
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Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/
@Mastodon It would be better if this post is not visible for users who are not on mastodon.social/online. If I read your bio it looks this account is for Mastodon in general, not mastodon.social/online. So to avoid confusion I highly recommend to open a different account for mastodon.social/online users.
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Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/
@Mastodon I think this is a great idea, and i personally would prefer to give direct support than via patreon. Hope it will be successful and more people will consider supporting you.
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Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/
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@Mastodon It would be better if this post is not visible for users who are not on mastodon.social/online. If I read your bio it looks this account is for Mastodon in general, not mastodon.social/online. So to avoid confusion I highly recommend to open a different account for mastodon.social/online users.
@joeneXtra there is an account @staff that is specific for mastodon.social and mastodon.online; and @MastodonEngineering that is about the software. This account @Mastodon covers the project as a whole, and although this blog post refers to this campaign being visible to people who use our servers, the funding discussion is about the whole organisation. Apologies for any confusion. We aim to communicate about our plans, organisation, fundraising, as well as the software, as clearly as we can.
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Over the next few days, people that have accounts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online may see a donation banner in our official mobile apps. Here's the background on this small message.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/
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@Mastodon quick question, but for those on #patreon do they get to remove and not see these banners? Much rather stepup and support Mastodon rather than pay for #twitter or #bluesky I mean there is the @buyfromeu movement. Mastodon may not have the prettiest or easiest sign up (yet) but it will outlive twitter and maybe bluesky
@Goldmaster the banner will still show (and can be easily dismissed with just a tap) if you already support us via Patreon - thanks for doing that, by the way - we don't make a connection between your account and Patreon or track you, so there's no way to premptively hide it. We hope it's only a small inconvenience.
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@Goldmaster the banner will still show (and can be easily dismissed with just a tap) if you already support us via Patreon - thanks for doing that, by the way - we don't make a connection between your account and Patreon or track you, so there's no way to premptively hide it. We hope it's only a small inconvenience.
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@Goldmaster the banner will still show (and can be easily dismissed with just a tap) if you already support us via Patreon - thanks for doing that, by the way - we don't make a connection between your account and Patreon or track you, so there's no way to premptively hide it. We hope it's only a small inconvenience.
@Mastodon Can we pay in U.S. currency directly to Mastodon?
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@Mastodon Is there any reason why you are allowed to use the necessary data for marketing things? Is there any consent on https://mastodon.online and/or https://mastodon.social which allow you to act like that?
Gute Frage. ePrivacy und DsGVO-konform soll es sein. Welche persönlichen Daten werden denn von den Nutzern verarbeitet?
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Gute Frage. ePrivacy und DsGVO-konform soll es sein. Welche persönlichen Daten werden denn von den Nutzern verarbeitet?
@rriemann Dauer der Anmeldung, genauer:
"… if they are signed-in to an account on one of our instances, and only if their account has existed for four weeks or more… "
Es wird also ausgewertet, auf welcher Instanz die nutzende Person aktivi ist und wie lange die Anmeldung her ist. Also mind. 2 Datenwerte, die hier "getrackt" werden.
Für das Funktionieren der App oder die Funktionsfähigkeit der Instanzen sind beide Informationen nicht notwendig.(Da dies auch für andere Instanzen ausgeweitet werden soll, ist es also keine einmalige Einzelmaßnahme sondern möglicherweise auch periodisch nutzbar.)
Dies war der Grund die #Mastodon-App zu löschen, denn es gibt genügend andere Apps.
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@rriemann Dauer der Anmeldung, genauer:
"… if they are signed-in to an account on one of our instances, and only if their account has existed for four weeks or more… "
Es wird also ausgewertet, auf welcher Instanz die nutzende Person aktivi ist und wie lange die Anmeldung her ist. Also mind. 2 Datenwerte, die hier "getrackt" werden.
Für das Funktionieren der App oder die Funktionsfähigkeit der Instanzen sind beide Informationen nicht notwendig.(Da dies auch für andere Instanzen ausgeweitet werden soll, ist es also keine einmalige Einzelmaßnahme sondern möglicherweise auch periodisch nutzbar.)
Dies war der Grund die #Mastodon-App zu löschen, denn es gibt genügend andere Apps.
@rriemann Was dabei aus meiner Sicht **noch** schlechter ist:
Da man die Anzeige leicht wegblenden können soll und sie im Nachgang auch nicht wieder erscheinen soll, muss ich auch noch tracken, welche nutzende Person die Meldung angezeigt bekommen hat und diese weggeklickt hat. Es sind also schon 3 Datenpunkte, die man benötigt, um das Ganze technisch umsetzen zu können:
* Instanz,
* Dauer seit Anmeldung auf der Instanz,
* Banner bereits angezeigt.
