Gregory's Server
@moliver Is this the part where you say “the Internet isn’t free”? Because everyone with a smartphone knows this.
The point is that Mastodon itself is free, both in the sense of “free as in beer” and “free as in freedom”.
I can download Mastodon, run it on my own hardware, and pay nothing except the price of bandwidth.
Can I download Twitter and run it on my hardware (legally)?
@atomicpoet
@moliver managed hosting is so cheap that anything under 500 users it's hard to even do the math. At 100 users, everyone pitches in $0.25/months maybe a little more if you want to buy the mods a latte
Yes, not free. But a smallish instance is cheap enough for anyone with a little savvy that it's not worth the effort to ask for donations