Gregory's Server@darius Hi Darius. I'm curious about overall sustainability / scaling of the Mastodon / Fediverse network. Do you know whether anyone is looking at this in aggregate? Is anyone calculating the server costs (increase)? I haven't seen any mention of economics of #Fediverse, but my server's admin is already mentioned sudden, additional costs of running the instance.
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 @tarkowski This of course assumes that web hosting costs stay more or less constant. This might not be the case, and could be a massive disaster. |
@tarkowski Costs will go up across the network for sure. The economics vary from software to software (Pleroma is a lot more efficient than Mastodon, for example). On my end, this unprecedented jump looks like it's going to cost us an extra $10/mo. My server hosts 50 active users. I think the economics ultimately work out better for small servers than big ones: individuals are more likely to contribute money when they belong to a tight community of shared principles.