Makes my heart full to know that my admins think pretty much the same way I do about this. Doing subscription tier BS against people who have multiple intersections as minority folks is some peak online capitalist ick IMO. Rewarding and/or preferencing folks who can pay is just reinforcing more of the structural crap we face on the daily in user-pays driven meatspace.
Funding the Fediverse - use an awards feature to fund instances
Saw this proposal originally posted on Github and thought it was worth posting here and expanding on...