Comment by rsynnott

I'd have some concerns about the idea of a paid Mastodon or IRC account, in that it kind of produces a perverse incentive for moderation; if you have a misbehaving user who's paying you, well, what do you do?

Though, doing the SomethingAwful approach ($10 one-off membership fee, extremely strict moderation, if you get banned that's another $10) would be an interesting experiment!