💵 Speaking of money, here’s where we are financially for 2025 so far:
Total costs: €465
Total donations: €320 (€222 from Liberapay + €98 from Ko-fi)
Balance: −€145
💛 So if some of you could contribute financially to our server costs (especially those who would never have done so), I added two new shiny Liberapay and Ko-fi donate buttons on our About page: https://mastodon.design/about#support
A huge thank you to the 23 members who regularly donate a few €/$ each month, your support is a tremendous help.
Let’s conclude, as always, with a curation of the best recent Fediverse news: Jon Pincus shared “More notes on Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Activism on decentralized social networks” 
🌐 As you may already know, IFTAS has stopped providing some of their services (more details here: https://about.iftas.org/2025/04/08/staying-the-course-our-continuing-mission/), including FediCheck, which enabled us to automatically defederate from certain servers identified as problematic by a significant threshold of their observed sources.
But they still develop their CARIAD Domain Observatory, which will continue to help me compare our deny list with theirs and make informed decisions, but manually.