The elaberate answer is: Microtransactions for an open source Free As In Freedom project is absolutely frakking insane. I must assume the OP is a troll from Twitter delibertely out to destroy the foundation of the Fediverse.
Beardedgeek72
joined 1 year ago
This is what donation drives are for.
On the instance I am on the admin currently have collected enough last donation drive to run the server for three years.
Mastodon is an open source Free-As-in-Freedom non profit project. That is the POINT of it.
Just move to Bluesky already.
Which sounds like spam to me. Was your account flagged officially as a bot? Then you might get away with it. Otherwise I would say it fills the definition of suspicious behavior / spam and definitely the content most people on say Twitter would block your account for.
Because it is one of the most popular ones with your search criteria?
IT is really not a difficult question.
Another issue of course is that people who are used to commercial social media think Mastodon has a "need to take off". Mastodon did fine with 80 000 total users, it does not need to make a profit. The whole idea of "be popular or die" is such a capitalist concept.