Re:Mastodon.technology Shutdown
by concordDance on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:11AM
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> For servers that run Mastodon.
Running a server that can cope with thousands of users would probably cost just a few dollars a month. Donations would be more than sufficient.
Time to maintain it ain't free
This right here. He's right you know. Everyone knows that Mastodon can't handle this amount of users and after 6 years, it's enough to see that by itself it has failed, (unless you count Truth Social as a great example of a Mastodon usage that has more users than Mastodon itself in less than a year)
It is not early days anymore and no non-technical user is interested in hosting their own servers for chatting with another person. They don't care about decentralization as even if they tried they will recentralize to the main Mastodon instance.
Re:Mastodon.technology Shutdown
by mynameisvlad on Friday October 07, 2022 @11:30AM
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And hell, even tech users aren’t inclined to sign up for a sysadmin role for free with absolutely nothing in return except users berating you whenever there’s problems. Which there will be at some point in time.
Source: I ran chat services for friends. I no longer run chat services for friends.
For servers that run Mastodon.
> But that sort of total exodus would mean a lot of additional people contributing ideas and code to the Fediverse, not just servers, but by making it easier to run your own instance.
Most users aren’t interested in contributing anything to the platform. Social media platforms popularity lays in simplicity. No one wants to run anything, just use service without any hassle.
> there are upwards of a million people using it right now.
Compare that to 200m+ users of Twitter sending 500m+ messages daily. I bet Mastdon can handle this without a sweat.