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Finance Update from The Fosstodon team

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hi everyone! Time for an update on how things are going with Fosstodon’s finances and the transition to the Fosstodon Foundation.

Foundation

As you may remember, the Fosstodon Foundation was officially founded back in June 2025! Currently @Kris, @btp and @gina function as board members. Together with a team of 15 well-trained volunteers we take care of daily operations. On September 5th 2025, we took over the finances from former admins Kev and Mike, who had been expertly managing things for 8 years before that.

We know some of you have been wondering why this transition took several months to complete. The reality is that establishing a foundation and navigating bank bureaucracy is a lengthy process. Especially during the summer holiday period in the Netherlands. Thanks for being patient with us while we were sorting through paperwork.

Current Financial Health

The good news: Fosstodon is doing really well financially. We’ve got enough money in the bank right now to cover about 9 months of operating expenses.

Fosstodon’s donations come from three sources: Patreon, LiberaPay and direct PayPal donations. By far the most come in through Patreon, which accounts for 62% of our income. LiberaPay represents 30% of donations, while direct PayPal donations make up 8% of the total. We also receive a miniscule amount of interest on our reserves. No matter the source, all donations are immensely appreciated <3

Fosstodon’s expenses are comprised of:

Service	Details	Frequency	Amount
Masto.host	Mastodon hosting provider fees	Monthly	€922,50
Digital Ocean	Fee for Mattermost server	Monthly	€18,38
Cloud DNS	Fee for DNS	Monthly	€15,24
DeepL API Pro	Translation service	Monthly	€34,99
Bank fees	Fee for our greedy bank	Monthly	€7,99
Bitwarden	Password manager	Yearly	€52,00

Looking Ahead

These healthy reserves speak to how well Kev and Mike took care of things. Besides managing Fosstodon’s funds responsibly, they also kept documentation and password management organized. Their stewardship made this whole transition way easier than it could have been, and we’re really grateful for that.

Historically Fosstodon has had a policy about keeping a 6-month financial cushion and donating anything beyond that. We’re still figuring out exactly how to do this as we get used to the new setup. This will soon be brought up with you all.

Thank You

Genuinely, thank you all for trusting us with this and for your continued donations. We know how lucky we are that Fosstodon is one of the few Mastodon servers that’s financially stable. That’s all because of you and this amazing community.

We’ll keep you posted on how things are going with the finances and the foundation. Transparency is important, and we want you to always know what’s happening with your contributions. If you have any questions, please reach out to us!

The Fosstodon team.

Announcing Fosstodon's Fider instance

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We’re excited to announce our own Fider instance: vote.fosstodon.org! Fider is a simple feature voting system that will give our community a platform to engage directly with the Fosstodon team and vote on and discuss suggestions and feedback for Fosstodon itself.

This platform is for Fosstodon users only; you can log in directly with your Fosstodon account. We look forward to hearing more feedback from the community to build a more transparent and collaborative platform together!

Vote.Fosstodon.org Participation Rules

✅ Basic Participation Rules

Be respectful and constructive. Only post suggestions or feedback that contribute positively to the community or server.
One idea per post. Keep posts focused so they are easier to vote on and implement.
Search before posting. Use the search bar to avoid duplicate ideas or feedback.

🚫 Prohibited Content

No hate speech, harassment, or discrimination. Posts violating our Code of Conduct will be removed.
No personal grievances or call-outs. Vote is for ideas, not interpersonal conflicts or moderation complaints.
No spam or self-promotion. This space is not for advertising or off-topic links.

🧹 Moderation & Voting

Not all top-voted ideas will be implemented. Votes help prioritize, but final decisions rest with the moderation/admin team.
Moderators may edit, merge, or remove posts. We may adjust wording for clarity or merge duplicates to keep things clean.
Use appropriate tags. Tag your post with categories (e.g., moderation, features, community) to help others navigate.

Introducing the Fosstodon Foundation

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introducing the Fosstodon Foundation

Today we are excited to share some news for the open source and decentralized community: the establishment of the Fosstodon Foundation. 🥳 The foundation is dedicated to fos(s)tering a friendly, inclusive, online space for open source people to come together, exchange ideas, and share common interests.

The newly formed Fosstodon Foundation formalizes this mission, ensuring the community has the legal and organizational structure to grow sustainably. The core objectives include:

Enabling a safe, inclusive, and welcoming environment for discussions about open-source software, technology, and digital culture.
Supporting the fediverse by maintaining a community-driven space.
Providing financial and operational stability through donations, grants, and other funding mechanisms.
Being a place where like-minded people share with one another in the spirit of open source collaboration.

Why a Foundation matters

Foundations play a crucial role in open source and decentralized projects. They provide governance, financial oversight, and legal protection; all of which help communities thrive without relying on corporate ownership. By establishing the Fosstodon Foundation, we are ensuring that:

Fosstodon remains independent and aligned with its original mission.
Donations and funding are managed transparently, with clear financial reporting.
Long-term sustainability is prioritized, so Fosstodon users can happily toot for years to come.

The near future

The foundation’s board members (Gina Plat, Kris Freedain, and Brandon Phillips) will oversee governance, financial management, and strategic direction.

Financial accountability: Annual statements will be prepared by the board.
Responsible governance: As a legally recognized nonprofit, Fosstodon operates under statutes that define our mission, structure, and responsibilities. Amendments to these statutes require a two-thirds majority vote.
Transparency in dissolution: A foundation means easier continuity. If the foundation should ever wind down, Fosstodon commits itself to a 6 month operational period and will distribute remaining funds among other open source projects.
Community-driven decisions: More on this very soon!

We’re glad you’re here

We’re very excited that Fosstodon has become an inclusive hub for developers, sysadmins, OSPO-members, community managers, and FOSS enthusiasts. With this new foundation in place, our community is set up for long-term sustainability, and can grow further with stability, transparency, and inclusivity at its core.

If you’re passionate about open source, decentralized tech, or just want a friendly corner of the internet to discuss nerdy things, we encourage you to check out Fosstodon and consider supporting the foundation’s work.

Here’s to the future of our community! 🥂

Signed,
Gina Plat
Kris Freedain
Brandon Phillips

Brandon and Kris joining as admins

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all, 👋

We’re very happy to announce that our call for a fellow admin has yielded not 1, but 2 very qualified people from our community. 🥳🥳 Brandon and Kris will be stepping up as admins, together with Gina. They’ll introduce themselves in this post.

An intro from Brandon

Hey everyone, I’m Brandon.

I’ll start with a little bit about myself. I’m a 35 year old NOC sys admin from Colorado living with my wonderful life partner and our adorable dog Millie. I’m new to the tech world professionally, getting my current position three years ago, and currently working towards a software developer role. Previously I was a political science major, but never finished my degree. I’d like to get back to school and pivot to a comp sci degree one day. Most of my free time is spent playing ttrpgs, Magic: The Gathering, watching campy sitcoms, or working on personal projects.

Fosstodon is the first instance I joined after creating my first fediverse account on mastodon.social. The passionate and friendly community drew me in, and I’ve met great pocket friends here that I still chat with today. After Kev and Mike stepped down, I wanted to do my part to keep this community alive and show the rest of the fediverse the welcoming and friendly place Fosstodon really is, and I’m glad that Gina and the rest of the team put their trust me to take on a co-admin role. I hope our users here and across other instances will as well. I’ll do my best to not let you down.

I share Gina’s vision for Fosstodon as a place for FOSS enthusiasts, tinkerers, hobbyests, and anyone else who’s passionate about software and technology to come and share it with the rest of the fediverse and the internet. We also want to continue to make our instance a safer place; to do this, we’re going to continue to take good-faith feedback, constructive criticism, and listen to what the users have to say.

An intro from Kris

Hello friends, I’m Kris

A little bit about me. I’m a 51 year old dad living in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon in the beautilful Pacific Northwest. I am dedicated family man, husband, and father, who practices Buddhism and has a daily meditation practice. I enjoy gardening, powerlifting, exploring new places to see and to eat with my family, and supporting our local football/soccer team, the Portland Thorns.

Professionally, I am the Community Manager for the OpenSearch Project, OpenSearch Software Foundation, and technical steering committee. I’ve been in the tech world for a long time with experience in community engagement, digital marketing, support, and release management. For the past few years, I’ve been able to travel the world and meet so many people from the open source community either at conferences or the global user group community we’ve been building. The open source world is a truly unique place.

I find connecting people through community to be very fulfilling and the Fosstodon community is a great place to do this. I want to continue to make Fosstodon a safe environment for all of us to meet, to share ideas, and to get to know one another.

Shaving the Yak

Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all, Gina here 👋

Hope you’re all well! Just some quick updates. If you’ve never heard the phrase “shaving the yak”, let me introduce you to a concept that has become very familiar since stepping into the admin role at Fosstodon.

Tasks within tasks

Yak shaving describes the phenomenon where a seemingly simple task turns into a series of increasingly complicated, often unrelated tasks. Say you want to write a blog post for hub.fosstodon.org on your personal laptop — but first you need to do another thing, such as fixing your personal laptop. And to do that, you need to do yet another thing, like checking if your SSD even works anymore. Before you know it, you’re in a field somewhere, shaving a yak. Or in my case, deep in my storage unit digging through my spare toolbox to find my miniature Philips screwdriver. All because I wanted to write a post.

Taking over the admin duties at Fosstodon has involved a fair amount of yak shaving.

Mod training

First! Mod training is going really well 😊

When I put out the call for moderators, over 40 Fosstodon users responded, and many more offered their technical expertise! The potential mods were invited to fill out a survey to assess their availability, commitment, mod experience, and alignment with Fosstodon’s values. Shout out to our friends at Limesurvey for helping us out. See the survey screenshot here.

From those 42 responses, 23 people joined our Mattermost channel to begin training. Some hadn’t filled out the survey, a few opted out to step up as admins on their own server 🙌, and others were a better fit for different roles. Thanks again to everyone who offered to help.

Since then, the new mod team has been busy! They’ve:

Read and discussed the Code of Conduct
Worked through a new training guide
Completed 20 example scenarios
And are discussing anonymized real-world reports this week

As of next week, their introductions will start to appear on hub.fosstodon.org/team/. They’ll move into a trial period where they’ll have full mod privileges, but continue to check in and discuss reports with the team before taking action. From the start, it’s been a focus to make sure our new mod team is diverse — not just in identities, but also in time zones, backgrounds, age, and experience levels. I’m very proud of how this team is coming together.

Admin duties

Meanwhile, I’ve been busy behind the scenes with classic admin tasks. One big thing: I don’t want Fosstodon’s finances to get mixed with my personal finances. If there’s one thing that strikes fear in the heart of a Dutch person, it’s dealing with the Dutch tax agency (de Belastingdienst). In order to responsibly take over finances from Kev, it’ll be necessary to set up a separate legal entity for Fosstodon.

Initially I looked into OpenCollective, but they don’t support recurring expenses; meaning Fosstodon’s monthly expenses would still come from my bank account and I’d be reimbursed later. Not a great option.

The alternative is setting up a non-profit. Which again opens a yak-shaving subquest:

Which bank do we go for? Triodos (Dutch only), or Bunq (international but terrible AI support)?
Since we don’t have an official address and I don’t want my personal address in our legal statutes, should we use a virtual office address? Or can we use the address of a befriended foundation?

Also, technically I could register the non-profit and open the bank account myself, but ideally we’d have at least one other person involved from the start, for transparency reasons. This means finding a fellow admin. Organizing calls. Doing checks. Sending DMs. Ultimately, more yak shaving. But, it is time.

📣 Call for a fellow admin 📣

So hereby a call for a fellow admin!

Have you been active on Fosstodon for a while and do you have a few hours per week for the next year to take on admin duties with me? And would you be okay with being registered as a board member for Fosstodon’s non-profit entity? Then send me a DM!

For now, thanks again all for your trust in me :) The yak is practically bald by now, so we’re on the right track. You know where to find me if you have questions or comments!

Fosstodon Community Statement

Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all, Gina here 👋

I would like to start this post by emphasizing the following: two things can be true at the same time.

Key points in this post:

I reject our former moderator’s views and I believe our former admins could have responded more thoughtfully. I’d like to affirm Fosstodon’s commitment to being a welcoming and inclusive place for tech and FOSS enthusiasts from any background. This 100% includes people from marginalized communities.
I also need to state that our former admins were treated poorly and that this isn’t okay. Our moderators are bound by our Code of Conduct (CoC). This means that they are responsible for upholding it, but protected by it as well.
We’re committed to doing better. This includes practical measures, but also occasional conversations about the tension between freedom of speech and moderation. We promise to do our best, please keep holding us accountable.

What happened

Recently, it was reported to us that a now former Fosstodon moderator, on a separate platform, took part in harmful engagement towards marginalized communities. We do not support or condone behavior, on any platform, that targets, dehumanizes, or disrespects marginalized communities. Regardless of whether a diverse and experienced moderator team balances out the views of one individual mod, participation in such behavior - whether on or off Fosstodon - undermines the inclusive space we are trying to build.

Fosstodon strives to be a welcoming and inclusive space for tech and FOSS enthusiasts from all backgrounds. This absolutely includes people from marginalized communities. I acknowledge that the initial response from our former admins could have been more thoughtful and better communicated. I understand that this left many feeling unsupported and hurt. Genuinely, I’m very sorry about that. It shouldn’t have happened.

Protecting people

I want to be clear: our server stands in solidarity with marginalized communities. Fosstodon’s Code of Conduct is meant to protect every member from harassment and abuse. No one should ever feel unwelcome here because of their identity or background. I deeply regret that the situation with our former moderator caused pain and that this wasn’t handled adequately. The new team will be committed to preventing this from happening again.

Now.. remember when I said two things can be true at the same time?

It’s important to acknowledge that, in the wake of these events, our former admins were also treated poorly. Kev and Mike experienced harassment and unfair personal attacks, and that was and is not acceptable. No one - regardless of their role - should be subjected to hostility. From now on, the protections outlined in our Code of Conduct will apply to the new team as well. Disagreements can be handled without name calling and abuse. Yes, the admins and mods should be held to a higher standard, but we all deserve to feel safe and respected.

Doing better

The past few days I’ve been scrolling non-stop through the fediverse, listening to your opinions, reading countless threads, posting about what’s happening, responding to people’s scepticism, learning from our former admins and current mods, chatting with admins from other Mastodon servers, and hopefully keeping most of you informed. I’m committed to learning from the past and doing better.

Some of the steps being taken:

A new admin and moderator team will be formed, with clear guidelines.
Our new team will be asked to adhere and live up to our CoC both on Fosstodon and externally.
All moderators and admins will receive training on fair and inclusive moderation according to the CoC.
We will try to improve transparency around how we handle reports.
We will try to improve our feedback process. In addition to our existing report channels, we’ll experiment with Fider, an opensource user feedback platform. This way your feedback doesn’t get lost in threads of toots.
There will always be tension between freedom of speech and moderation. This will be an ongoing conversation with Fosstodon users and the new team.

Please know that the new team is open to your feedback and reports at any time. There will be a future blogpost about reporting, moderating and checks and balances. If you see behavior that concerns you, or if you have ideas on how we can improve Fosstodon, we want to hear from you. Your voice matters.

Next steps

Sorry that this message took a while. I needed time to structure my thoughts and to make sure that we have plans, not just words. I’d like to thank everyone who stayed, trusted my efforts, and offered words of support. I’m looking forward to working with the new team, which is in the process of being formed. As I said in my previous post, I’m committed to keeping the original intent of the server alive; to be a welcoming, safe and inclusive place for tech and FOSS enthusiasts. Please keep holding me and the team accountable.

Thank you for listening <3

An Intro/Update From Gina

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all, Gina here!

Whoo, it’s been a week on #Fosstodon, hasn’t it! As many of you know by now, Kev and Mike have decided to step down as admins. This is after many years of dedication, building this amazing community into what it is today; the biggest server on the fediverse for FOSS and technology enthusiasts. Thank you again, Kev and Mike, for your hard work. I hope you stay on Fosstodon as regular users and enjoy posting about your favorite topics again.

In the meantime the community has responded; we don’t want Fosstodon to disappear! I’ll be taking over some admin tasks from Kev and Mike and will focus on building our team in the coming weeks. Fosstodon stays. I’ll need your help, so please keep reading.

About Gina

I’m Gina, a 35 year old tech enthusiast living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I live with Pookie and Wessie, two spoiled tuxedo cats. In my free time I enjoy bouldering and climbing, cooking for friends, and ignoring my pile of half-finished DIY projects. My politics lean left, I’ve been a member of the Dutch labour party for most of my life. My personal philosophy is that we all do our best, and that’s all we can do.

A long, long time ago, I studied Political Sciences. But because Political Scientist isn’t an actual job, I immediately transferred to IT. I worked as a programmer and in 2018 I became the IT manager at Mama Cash, an international feminist non-profit. Mama Cash wanted nothing to do with GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft), so it was up to me to build a fully FOSS internal IT environment. Everything from servers and virtualisation, to apps and desktops was replaced with Linux, Proxmox, Ipsilon, Zimbra, Nextcloud, LibreOffice/Collabora, Jitsi, Rocketchat, Linux Mint desktops and a bunch of other opensource tech. It was nerve wracking, but so cool. And it worked! It was during this time that I found Fosstodon, where I could share my FOSS adventures. Fosstodon was a breath of fresh air compared to Twitter. I really enjoyed learning about all these cool FOSS projects, and to get to know the people behind them - sometimes even irl at Fosdem. I occasionally did some mod work as well. After I left Mama Cash I stayed on Fosstodon, which has been my fediverse home for the last 6 years.

Vision on Fosstodon

My vision is very simple. I’d like everything to stay the same, while learning from the past. I think Fosstodon could benefit from more attentive moderation and ways for the community to give feedback. Moderators will be asked to live up to and adhere to the Code of Conduct (CoC), both on Fosstodon and other online platforms. We’ll look into ways to be more transparent about moderating. I’d also like to implement Fider, an opensource upvote system, to collect ideas for improvement. This way your feedback will be more visible and the admin team won’t have to read through 500 threads of toots to hear your opinion.

Other than this, things will stay the same. We’ll remain an invite-only server for now. I’d love to open up the server again, but this can only be possible with a strong enough mod team. The CoC will remain the same. CW policies will remain the same. Official communication will be placed on hub.fosstodon.org and posted through @fosstodon, same as it is now. We’ll keep being free and donation based. Most of all, I’m committed to keeping the original intent of the server alive; to be a welcoming, safe and inclusive place for tech and FOSS enthusiasts.

How you can help?

Kev and Mike have recently shown me the admin workload. I’m not going to lie; It’s A LOT. It’s seriously impressive how much they were doing in order to keep Fosstodon running, and to keep it nice and safe. Kev and Mike have agreed to stay on a bit longer to help train our new team.

As it looks now, we will need:

a team of mods of 6 to 8 people. Moderation is done in the back-end of our Mastodon server, through a relatively usable UI. As a mod, you’ll have to agree to familiarize yourself with, live up to and adhere to our Code of Conduct; on Fosstodon and other public platforms. Workload can be divided as we see fit, handling a report is usually about a 10 minute job.
1 to 2 technical admins for sysadmin tasks. This is mostly upkeep of our Mattermost server and implementation of our new upvote system, plus small technical tasks. Fosstodon itself is hosted at masto.host.
a Kev to my Mike and vice versa. One person who would be interested in sharing the overall coordination. This would mean occasional chats through Signal about admin coordination and shared communication on hub.fosstodon.org.

We’ve already received quite a few volunteering offers from our amazing community, more are always welcome! Please reply to @fosstodon’s post or send me (Gina) a message if you’re interested in any of the roles above. After the weekend I’ll gather everyone who has offered to volunteer onto Mattermost, and we’ll build a team.

Final note

I can’t make any promises, except that I will do my best. Thank you for your trust in me. <3

Fosstodon is NOT Shutting Down

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hey folks, Kev here. 👋🏻

You may have read the posts that Mike and I wrote yesterday about us both being burned out and wanting to step down. So I wanted to write a quick post here to set the record straight on a couple of things, as there’s some inaccurate information flying around as a result of those 2 posts.

If you didn’t read them, here’s the links:

I’ve not been checking in on Fosstodon regularly, since I wrote the post as it’s overwhelming, but I have seen a few posts from people saying they’re moving because Fosstodon is shutting down.

Fosstodon is NOT shutting down.

Although we’re utterly burned out, Mike and I don’t want this to be the end of Fosstodon. We would much rather hand over the batton to someone else in the community to take over and hopefully, do a better job than we did.

We’re currently in talks with Gina. She’s well liked on the instance, is very level headed and used to be a moderator, so she has a good idea of what to expect. Mike and I both trust her implicitly and think she would be a great custodian for Fosstodon 2.0.

To be clear - there’s still a lot of conversations to be had, and a lot of stuff to hand over, but our hope is that we will hand the reigns over to Gina, if she still wants it once we’ve given her a warts-and-all run down of everything that’s involved.

Gina has a tough task ahead of her - she will need to find new mods to bolster the existing team, and she will likely need to find at least 1 other admin to help her. If Gina decides it’s not for her, Mike and I commited to 3 months of notice before anything happens. So during that time, we will look for someone else who might be interested.

Please don't email Mike and I offering your services. Although very kind, Mike and I have a specific shortlist of people we know and trust that we would approach.

More to come over the next few days/weeks, but I wanted to reassure everyone that although Mike and I are moving on, it doesn’t necessarily mean the end of Fosstodon.

Our Position On Blocking Threads

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Before we get into this, I wanted to give some context. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg decided to make some significant changes to how Meta products and services are moderated, and the general consensus to these changes is that it’s all bad.

This could mean more extremism, more abuse, and general more shittery for the fediverse as Threads now federates. With that in mind, lots of our fellow instance admins have been considering whether they should de-federate with Threads.

Many have.

I’ve written about my personal opinions on the matter before, but this isn’t about me, it’s about the 60,000 or so people that call Fosstodon home. So the rest of the team and I have been discussing the whole thing. A lot.

We discussed it as a team, and after lots of discussion we were erring toward not de-federating with Threads as people have the option to personally defederate.

But we wanted a pulse check from the community, so we decided to put a poll on Patreon that asked our patrons to give their opinion as they’re a good cross-section of our community. After 299 votes and lots of conversation in the comments, the results were in:

A lot of the discourse in the comments aligned with the discussion we had as a team in our Mattermost chat.

As a result, we have decide NOT to de-federate with Threads.

Why?

This decision may piss some of you off. We get it. But when making these decision, we have to consider all 60k of the users on our platform. And the fact is, many would like the option of communicating with folk on Threads.

That said, there is an option to block Threads in its entirety for your account. Had this option not been in place, we may have gone down the de-federation route, but since everyone on Fosstodon can personally block Threads, we felt it prudent to keep the doors open for those that want to step through.

For those that don’t, you can quickly and easily slam that door shut and deadlock the shit out of it.

How to block Threads on your account

If you’re one of the people who still want to block Threads on your account, it’s very easy to do.

Firstly, log into your Fosstodon account on the web interface, then go to the search bar at the top left of the page and search for @zuck@threads.net. Alternatively, just click this link to be taken straight to Zuck’s Threads profile on Fosstodon.

Once there, click on the 3 dots next to the Follow button, and select the option to Block domain threads.net.

That’s it. All of Threads should now be blocked for your account.

Will this change in the future?

The short answer is possibly. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and if we see a lot of abuse coming from Threads to Fosstodon, we will re-think the decision and probably de-federate with them.

At the moment though, Threads users are generally good fedi citizens. We have around 3,300 people following over 9,000 accounts on Threads and we have only received 2 reports for them. One of which was someone reporting the account just because they were on Threads. The other was because a Walking Dead meme didn’t have a content warning.

Final thoughts

This may not be the decision that some of you want to hear, but like I said earlier, we have to think of the collective, rather than the few. Especially since you can all block Threads in a couple of seconds and be done with it.

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with us, either via email, or on the fedi.

Introducing Supporter Tags

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

As of today, we’re launching a new tag within Fosstodon that celebrates those who have chosen to financially support us. If you support us on Patreon, here’s what your profile should now look like:

This should effect all current and past Patreon supporters where we have been able to match your Patreon email with your registered email on Fosstodon. Whether your membership is currently active or not.

What about other supporters?

Unfortunately, we can’t add this tag for supporters who have donated by Liberapay or PayPal as there is no way for us to access your email address. If you have supported us via one of these methods, please drop us an email and we will work to get the tag added to your account.

Note: You will need to add some proof of your donation to the email and your Fosstodon username.

What about new supporters?

Now that we’ve gone through the backlog of existing supporters, we will review new supporters on a regular basis and add them. So you should see the supporter tag appear on your account within a couple days of becoming a supporter.

Become a Fosstodon supporter

Finally, thanks to everyone who has financially supported Fosstodon, whether that’s in the past, or at present. We wouldn’t be able to operate this beast without it.