On a bit more serious note, instances are commonly ran by individuals or small groups and the hosting expenses are paid out of their own, personal, pocket. So, to keep things running, many instances have set up a patreon or similar so that their users can throw a coin in the hat. Even if instances are free to use and ad-free there’s still very real expenses running for the hardware and bandwidth and they need to be covered by someone.
You don’t get any perks, blue checkmarks or anything from it but the warm and fuzzy feeling of being outside of advertiser mandated content and being a part of something pretty cool makes up for that many times over.
How to do that?
No need to flatter him. Send him the mandatory $10 to activate your account, that’s enough.
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On a bit more serious note, instances are commonly ran by individuals or small groups and the hosting expenses are paid out of their own, personal, pocket. So, to keep things running, many instances have set up a patreon or similar so that their users can throw a coin in the hat. Even if instances are free to use and ad-free there’s still very real expenses running for the hardware and bandwidth and they need to be covered by someone.
You don’t get any perks, blue checkmarks or anything from it but the warm and fuzzy feeling of being outside of advertiser mandated content and being a part of something pretty cool makes up for that many times over.