Chris, thanks for strongly promoting support for Mastodon as a project, alongside one's instance. I completely agree with you, and have reactivated my membership at $5/month.
For folks who strongly disagree with Gargamel's approach to governance and project leadership, it's worth mentioning the Hometown fork as well, which has a Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/tinysubversions
Or any other open software of your choice that you think will help nurture the community you're part of.
@eloquence Good points. I enabled an annual donation to #Mastodon gGmbh through #OpenCollective:
https://opencollective.com/mastodon
(With 20 $ it's 15 % fees including the credit card fees. Comparable to Patreon, but it's a non-profit.)
Most recent expenses are actually to fund bug fixes by @ykzts, which sounds great. More donations for bug fixes, please!
https://opencollective.com/mastodon/expenses
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aykzts+is%3Aclosed