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Urbanists.Social

We run a Mastodon server for people into bikes, transit, and walkable cities.

Contributors


Urbanists.Social is all of us

Our contributors 124

Thank you for supporting Urbanists.Social.

Sam Wight

Admin

$480 USD

Zak Patterson

Admin

$320 USD

Noel Hidalgo

backer

$210 USD

Michael McLean

backer

$193 USD

cyklista

$150 USD

Hannonizer

backer

$110 USD

Sean McMains

$100 USD

Jonathan Mertzig

$100 USD

Roy Brander

$100 USD

Marty Cormack

backer

$85 USD

RA Siy

backer

$80 USD

Budget


Transparent and open finances.

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Today’s balance

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Total raised

$5,588.38 USD

Total disbursed

$5,588.38 USD

Estimated annual budget

$789.38 USD

Expenses

All time

Expenses paid

65

Amount disbursed

$5,575.12

Tags# of ExpensesAmount
no tag
13$3,142.45
server costs
19$2,054.33
urbanists.social
15$1,861.11
operating costs
14$337.41
odd.town
3$105.15
one-off expenses
1$40.93

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Contributions

All time

Contributions received

142

Amount collected

$6,309.22

Tiers# of ContributionsAmount
recurring
68$3,918.00
one-time
74$2,291.22

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About


A place for urbanists to connect with each other

We're an ad-free Mastodon server for urbanists: people who like bikes, transit, and walkable cities. We provide a home for our members on the Fediverse: a network of interconnected, federated servers. Urbanists.Social is organized and funded by the community itself: we take no money from outside sources, only donations from our users.

This OpenCollective exists to:
  1. Give our users more confidence in choosing us as their new internet home. Our budget is completely transparent. Anyone can look and see how many months of funding we have, how much we're spending on server costs, etc.
  2. Ensure the longevity of our Mastodon server. Our server costs are not huge. If even only a few users give a little bit monthly, we're able to cover them no problem. Running this as a collective allows us to provide a safe, ad-free, non-commodified social media experience on the web.

About our budget

We use a yearly budget system to make things simple. We have two categories of costs: server hosting costs and operating costs. Server hosting costs are the funds we pay to our host: Masto.Host, as well as our domain name. Operating costs are miscellaneous costs for things like email, contact points for our DMCA designated agent, and more. 

Here's our current server costs:
  • Masto.Host - $1320/yr ($110 monthly). We're on the Galaxy plan with the ElasticSearch addon and no other addons. We pay for this monthly, not annually.
  • Google Domains - $30/yr. We pay for this annually.
Here's our current operating costs:
  • Email account - $47/yr. We use Proton and pay yearly.
  • Phone number - $30/yr. We need a phone number to list publicly on the DMCA designated directory. We purchase a phone number to protect the privacy of our agent. This is paid for yearly.
  • Mailing address - $240/yr. We need a mailing address to list publicly on the DMCA designated agent directory. We purchase a mailing address to protect the privacy of our agent (so they don't have to list their address publicly). This is paid for monthly.

Our team