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Re:The case for the decentralization of online forums by janoc on Saturday June 10, 2023 @04:39PM (#36274861)
>Every Fediverse instance I've used - and I've used quite a few - has been either so small that the total cost is a few dollars a month, or fiscally sustained by donations from users.

And that is somehow invalidating what I have said? Sure, if you have 10 users then your costs are going to be negligible and you can probably sustain it from your own pocket or donations.

But good luck running a larger/popular service like that. There are reasons why the more popular Mastodon servers had to stop accepting new users after the Twitter/Musk fiasco - it was simply not sustainable for the one-man operator crews.

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Re:The case for the decentralization of online forums by edgyquant on Saturday June 10, 2023 @04:47PM (#36274935)
Seems like a failure of architecture or deployment on mastodons part. If you want your service to be both self hostable and widespread you have to make the self hosting just work.
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Re:The case for the decentralization of online forums by NoraCodes on Saturday June 10, 2023 @11:43PM (#36277783)
Perhaps you misundstand. The ones with <10 users cost a few bucks a month. The ones with thousands of users are sustainable through donations. There is no lack of sustainability here.

Because it's a federated system, there is no need for instances larger than that (and in my opinion, they are a net negative for the network).

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