/2 but the community will shrink if individuals cannot earn their own running costs. If 10,000 servers have 10,000 different ad networks users can still chose which server they wish to support,. the advertisers will never be able to control it as long as we are many. But we are becoming few, we have seen so many dead links. We will be moving our instance to a more powerful and cost effective server in the new year. For those who still want to be on mastodon who's servers are gone.
3/ then we intend to attempt work on resolving the overheads issue for everyone, running an instance.