Mastodon is financed by crowdfunding instead of venture capital not because we don't know that venture capital exists, not because we don't have bills to pay, and not because venture capital isn't willing to give money to new social media platforms. VCs don't want a sustainable business, they want a big exit. Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.
@Gargron Microsoft/GitHub is not Venture Capital, it's Totalitarian Capital - MS is part of the #GAFAM oligopoly. We still don't know [1] where Mastodon-the-software has described its plan to migrate away [2] from the MS totalitarian capital platform that it is currently developed on, to shift to community servers that are sustainable. Giving money through MS/GH sounds even worse than maintaining bug reports there.