Re:Sure, it didn't work for Email, XMPP, Diaspora, but maybe...
by brookst on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:58AM
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Some good points, but a little stuck in the past.
Today, I pay less for a hosted and managed Mastodon instance than Elon wants for a blue badge or whatever it’s called this week.
It’s true that nobody wants to be a sysadmin. But cloud hosting, cheap storage, containers, and management tools mean not everyone has to. We just need one person who can make a living being a sysadmin for every ten thousand or so people that want to use the system.
(I’m eliding the difficulty in moderation, which these hosting providers don’t and shouldn’t do, but that’s the next problem that I think will also be solved aaS so scale economies make it work)
Today, I pay less for a hosted and managed Mastodon instance than Elon wants for a blue badge or whatever it’s called this week.
It’s true that nobody wants to be a sysadmin. But cloud hosting, cheap storage, containers, and management tools mean not everyone has to. We just need one person who can make a living being a sysadmin for every ten thousand or so people that want to use the system.
(I’m eliding the difficulty in moderation, which these hosting providers don’t and shouldn’t do, but that’s the next problem that I think will also be solved aaS so scale economies make it work)