I'm curious, how much does it cost you, monthly, on average, to participate in the fediverse?
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I'm curious, how much does it cost you, monthly, on average, to participate in the fediverse?
Including voluntary donations to your server admins, fediverse apps and other software, your own server, etc. Any money you spend directly towards keeping the fediverse going.
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Inspired, of course, by the news about X raising the cost of their Premium Plus subscription by 40%, and some of the responses claiming that the fediverse is free. I wish!
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X raises Premium Plus subscription pricing by almost 40 percent
X has substantially raised the price of its top-tier user subscription in multiple regions to help bolster the platform’s creator payouts.
The Verge (www.theverge.com)
The ways we keep the fediverse sustainable | Stefan Bohacek
Go buy some stickers and plushies!
(stefanbohacek.com)
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For me:
- $24/month for hosting my server (where I also host 50+ bots https://stefans-creative-bots.glitch.me)
- $5/month for hosting uploaded media (this is shared among a few other of my projects)
- I've also made several, mostly one-time donations to Mastodon-related projects and developers and I'm a bit too lazy to add it all up.So, probably in the $11-50 bracket?
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan My instance is very expensive, costs me over $100/mo. Thankfully, I have one person who donates enough money every month to cover the costs.
Labor, of course, always free.
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
@oliphant Oh wow, I'd love to see a more detailed breakdown, if you ever decide to blog about this. (Or have already done so!)
I've felt I've been doing something wrong with my server, not being able to run it for cheaper, even before I moved my bots here.
Granted, I do have Elasticsearch enabled, but I'd still expect the cost to be lower.
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I pay for our instance so I do spend some.
Wish I could spend more for better servers but it is what it is. -
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@raccoon I'm sure the admin(s) appreciate every little bit of donations!
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Uhm.
No, the vps is mine
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Ooops, forgot to include ~ $25/year for the domain name, which would be about $2/month.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan These are DigitalOcean prices, too. The gist is that the instance is 4 CPUs and 8 GB of RAM, which is probably overkill for 6 people, but at one time I was considering opening this instance up to as many as 100 people.
I also use a managed database, which is $15/mo, but at least I get backups and upgrades and point-in-time restore handled for me, which seemed worth it.
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@raccoon Hah, sorry! Yeah, it can be tough running a server. The fediverse is definitely not free, and I am just thankful for all the money, time, and effort we all put into it.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan The Verge just carries water for it instantly:
"Prices are increasing in multiple regions to help support ad-free browsing and revenue-sharing payouts."
THERE IS NO REVENUE BECAUSE THERE ARE NO PROFITS BECAUSE THAT THING KEEPS LOSING MONEY
There. I feel better.
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@stefan Heh... I'm half asleep, apparently. I answered a monthly poll with annual values.
So feel free to subtract from the end results one 11-50, and add one to the lower bracket.
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@jorgecandeias Hah, no worries!
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A follow-up poll. Where does your money go?
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@evan Yes, thank you for catching that!
