I seen a comment that they were covered by the instant tax right-off and so their dealers were pushing them to business owners and tradies who were more than happy to buy 2-ton codpieces oversized vehicles. Seems to check out from my experience with them.
Seems it. I remember a while back someone started dumping memes on here dunking on something, seems they had a vendetta about some change (someone with a better memory might be able fill in the blanks!). I wonder if it’s a similar thing.
Absolutely! Server donations are good for a single instance but I think a service that allows users to purchase gold/awards and awards the particular instance (with funds) that they get used on would help fund the Fediverse as a whole. I imagine implementing something like that would not be simple but anything is better than injecting ads.