@torgny In all seriousness, I'm actively exploring what the expenses would look like for a 10 - 50k user instance, and what the moderation and technical support needs would be.
If we can figure out a way to make it sustainable, we'll do it.
In the meantime, there's no "business model" just people doing a thing because they believe in it.
@ajroach42 I definitely am on the believer side!
I fired this same server up in 2016, ran it for a while and then lost interest because most people were still on Twitter.
Now I'm back, probably for the long haul. And it looks like a bunch of people have made the switch, which is very exciting.
I chose to use DO for this because I am not entirely comfortable hosting a public instance on my home network where I also work.