#fediversesustainability — Public Fediverse posts

Share this with your server admins!

"We’re seeking operators, moderators and administrators of Fediverse sites, from the smallest to the largest, to fill out the anonymous survey and share information about how their instances work."

https://socialweb.limesurvey.net/256253

via https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/04/06/fediverse-sustainability-survey/

#fediverse #FediverseAdmins #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #FediverseSustainability #FediverseSustainabilitySurvey

Another thing to highlight:

"While other social media platforms have teams of hundreds of engineers working on them, we operate on less than 500K USD annually with a team of only 4 full-time employees, and a number of contractors."

This is very important to know and remember.

#mastodon #fediverse #sustainability #FediverseSustainability

Good opportunity to donate to your server's admin to keep them going!

(Or your friends' admin, if you self-host.)

#FediverseSustainability

In the light of this news, it's even more important to support other fediverse platforms and server admins and moderators.

#fediverse #FediverseSustainability

https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/113084852319192699

Also a good reminder that 42% of server admins use their own money to support the communities they run. Always a good time to send them a few bucks!

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-ways-we-keep-the-fediverse-sustainable/

#FediverseSustainability #fediverse #SupportYourAdmins

I'm not particularly interested in monetization on social media, but will definitely keep an eye on the work that @bart, @quillmatiq, and the rest of the @subclub team are doing in this area.

https://video.everythingbagel.me/w/rXvUZeaU1b2rnaXGVKzsPe

Really want to see fediverse to remain sustainable and appreciate that folks are working towards that goal.

https://sub.club/

#SubClub #fediverse #SocialMedia #monetization #FediverseSustainability #FediverseMonetization

Reminder: 42% of fediverse admins use their own money to run their servers, 14% rely on donations.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-ways-we-keep-the-fediverse-sustainable/

https://mstdn.social/@stux/112959093261244944

#fediverse #fediadmin #sustainability #FediverseSustainability #SupportYourAdmins #SocialMedia

Today is also a great opportunity to support all the work that keeps the fediverse going.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-ways-we-keep-the-fediverse-sustainable/

Donate to your and your friends' admins, and all the developers actively building the fediverse and the apps and other tools that make it better. See if you can volunteer. Help spread the word.

And most importantly, stick around and have fun!

#fediverse #FediverseSustainability

"[...] support your admins, your friends' admins, if you have the means, and go buy some stickers and plushies!"

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-ways-we-keep-the-fediverse-sustainable/

#fediverse #FediverseSustainability #funding #indieweb #OpenWeb

Hey #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins, how do you go about funding your communities?

#fediverse #SocialMedia #sustainability #FediverseSustainability

In all seriousness, go donate to your admin. Or to your friend's admin. Buy their merch!

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112383266041736831

#FediverseSustainability #merch #FediverseMerch

Hm.

Bluesky: "Hard to sustain a company like this without ads in todays world" https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110254051709008742

Threads: "You could imagine an extension to the protocol eventually — [...] ‘hey, feel free to show me ads [...]" https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/why-meta-is-looking-to-the-fediverse-as-the-future-for-social-media/

Fediverse: "We're going to make a #Mastodon plushie and it's going to be very cute!" https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111043162103567515

#threads #bluesky #fediverse #SocialMedia #ads #FediverseSustainability

Neat!

I wonder what other instances sell their own merch.

https://metalhead.club/@thomas/112306510285684781

Of course, mastodon.social does it.

https://mastodon.social/tags/Merchtodon

#fediverse #FediverseAdmins #MastoAdmins #merch #FediverseSustainability

And here's a comparison of results of the poll where I asked fediverse admins about the sustainability of their communities.

I removed the "not an admin/view results" option for easier comparison.

2023: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110413084211315773
2024: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112044010011415652

#fediverse #FediAdmins #FediverseSustainability

Results of the same poll posted a year apart asking people about making donations to fediverse admins.

2023: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110306418229085517
2024: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112026655558298375

#fediverse #poll #donations #data #dataviz #FediverseSustainability

@pvonhellermannn and since you mention in another reply https://mastodon.social/@pvonhellerman[email protected]/109324313406802238 thought promped by twitter unraveling, this seems a good case to study: how will (or better,how is) the fediverse more swiftly adopt sustainable policies than twitter? Is there a #fediversesustainability discourse or initiative of some sort? Would love to see that and help if I can!