Giving money to your admin to keep things running or to the Mastodon project are great ways to give back and help your community.
Giving money to support individual users on Mastodon who need money and resources is just as if not more helpful and important.
Support the poor in your community. Pay the artists. Spread the resources around. Make this place as healthy and punk rock as possible.
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@foox As a poor person, I'd prefer actual money, thanks. 😇
@GinnyMcQueen as a poor person it is ESPECIALLY important to take back your financial sovereignty. YOU deserve it! remove the middleman (banks) from your value exchange system and enter a new paradigm of freedom.
@foox Cool, I'm okay with not being lectured at because you think you know more than I do about my needs and assume I don't understand anything about currency or the economy.
@GinnyMcQueen errrr no i was trying to be inspirational.
@foox Don't go around telling poor people what they need. It's a bad look, and your take is extremely privileged and uneducated.
@GinnyMcQueen you are totally correct! I appreciate the feedback and will totally reconfigure. Check out some of the art I made about money. I think you will like it.
@foox @GinnyMcQueen crypto isn't going to help poor people when the barrier to entry to get into crypto is paper money and poor people don't have money to waste on a currency that is predominantly used as an investment opportunity.
The concept is nice but it doesn't pan out when people speculate and use cryptocurrencies like a stock.
@zeroes @GinnyMcQueen there will be many cryptocurrencies some will be inflationary like our current money supply and others will be a store of value - so eventually as we migrate across to the new system people will buy and transact and not even know they are using cryptocurrency. but i was only just suggesting that there be a payment gateway for people to give each other money on mastodon based on Ginny original toot.
@GinnyMcQueen Oddly, I've felt that I have mostly not seen "please support me" on Mastodon where I have felt that it has been a "money grab" type thing. There may have been a couple of specific cases. Though I also believe there are a *lot* of people who aren't asking who almost certainly could use help. Some of us feel creepy even mentioning when it's for something specific, or even just to be able to make something closer to living income... I wish it weren't true.
@JigmeDatse @GinnyMcQueen What about a #Patreon or similar service for your local Mastodon server? That way there's some transparency to how much funding the instance gets, and gives another opportunity to meet your local user community? I could totally chip in a dollar month toward a service like this.
@masyukun @GinnyMcQueen mastodon.art has https://liberapay.com/glocal/ and I believe other payment options. @Curator would know of other options, which might exist. I think that is a big part of why things are so stable here.
@masyukun @JigmeDatse Not sure what this post means, but every instance in this thread has a Patreon account.
@GinnyMcQueen That’s a side of punk many people miss.
@GinnyMcQueen do u know if Mastadon will include a cryptocurrency wallet embedded in the open source software so that we can easily send each other value in the form of bitcoin litecoin dash doge? wouldnt that be epic ? #bitcoin #crypto #money #value #future