I guess I just think of something like that as basically free, especially since mine is basically free.
I guess they can't run it that way though, since they're not an open web organization but an activist organization. That being the case, they need top down dictatorial control and that costs big money.
@sj_zero Does yours have a lot of users? Mine is also basically free (about 1 pizza a month) but I'm also the only user on it.
It's not easy letting go.
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@sj_zero Isn't @stux in the red over server hosting costs? I've seen multiple #Lemmy servers go down as well due to financial reasons.
Running a popular #Fediverse instance isn't as expensive as it could be, but it's also not cheap.
@realcaseyrollins @sj_zero it doesn’t help that Mastodon is an ultra-mega-heavyweight in terms of resource usage per active user.
@sj_zero @realcaseyrollins I love me Akkoma instance running on 7 generation old hardware reverse proxied thru a $2/year VPS,but that infrastructure is a result of me trading time (and painfully gathered expertise) for not having to pay much
@sj_zero @realcaseyrollins @clawfulneutral Mastodon is a Ruby on Rails system.
One upside, though, is people know how to scale them to a fair degree.
