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237de24a | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @6b43cb18 I mean, it doesn't need to be 60 people, but like, just scaling Mastodon from 2 full time engineers on core to 5. That's like.. €500k/year. Maybe a bit more or less (given "good" European salaries, and taxes / insurance)

Given there's 1.3 million MAU that should be easy to reach.
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d491efdc | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f50dbb78 

That is what the mastodon.social team resembles, I think.
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237de24a | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @6b43cb18 no, not at all. Mastodon gGmbH only has Eugen & Claire working on mastodon/mastodon, then there's an SRE or two on mastodon.social and mastodon.online (there's also mods of course)

I know this, because I applied to be the third engineer on the team to work full-time on mastodon/mastodon, unfortunately it fell through.

The numbers I gave account for MUAs for all servers running Mastodon. Point is, even at $1/yr each, we'd have that money.