@J12t @thisismissem donate to #mastodon (or #kbin , etc) developers and instances to get space for communication and news where I spend at least an hour a day. If I can pay for a coffee I am drinking while writing this, I can pay for keeping this medium alive. The fact that #wikimedia is alive means this model is possible to a degree. Maybe a slightly broader foundation could be a way to do this which is a bit less volatile.
@volodymyr @thisismissem oh, the money is not the problem. People have, what, $50 or more to spend on mobile phone service per month, and use free Wi-Fi half the time anyway. (Imagine if people spent $50 per month on the fediverse, and what could be done!)
The interesting question is: why are they fine with spending it on cell service and not on an open communication network eg the fediverse? What could be done to change that?