@mattblaze @ASP @mcc I feel like I have to intervene as well and say that aforementioned issues are indeed non-trivial, external contributors cannot be expected to solve them, and I can not guarantee that donating to the non-profit will result in those specific issues being solved.
@Gargron @mattblaze @ASP @mcc I hope that contributors could work on many of these things. I contributed patches to Linux back in the 90s, they were dropped but the issues they addressed were (eventually) solved.
Also, Mastodon is lovely but it doesn't have to set the boundaries of what can be done with ActivityPub. I want interest groups, buy/sell ads and self-promoted music. Those won't happen on Masto, but they can be visible here to folks who want it.