You can already donate to the people operating this instance. No subscriptions needed, just donate away.

Just because something’s not corporate owned doesn’t mean bad actors can come onto this platform. I’ve seen some unsavory people here already.

That’s because Mastodon is a federated Twitter clone. If you never used Twitter to begin with (which is really for professionals/celebrities/famous people to put out public messages to people), then you won’t get it. Most people don’t need to use Twitter or anything like it.

Yeah hopefully we get past the shitpost/meme stage which seems to be taking over here right now.

Isn’t it called BitTorrent?