questions i keep coming back to since https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/ was posted are, is every community-hosted mastodon instance just a ticking time bomb of ratcheting hosting costs, and is this unavoidable / endemic to...
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questions i keep coming back to since https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/ was posted are, is every community-hosted mastodon instance just a ticking time bomb of ratcheting hosting costs, and is this unavoidable / endemic to mastodon's architecture? if a network is decentralized but every node eventually buckles under inefficiency costs, the decentralization isn't actually helping; it's a liability.
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"just don't host a big instance with open signups and no requirement to pay" - that certainly seems like a sensible way to keep the costs curve from looking too scary, but that's kind of the opposite of what the mastodon project itself is doing with mastodon.social, right? that seems like a deep contradiction that is only kinda squared by having access to steadily increasing amounts of capital.
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also my understanding is that even if an instance has a reasonable (small) number of users, its storage requirements could still balloon a lot if those users follow a lot of people, whose posts are then mirrored on the instance's server... right? the only way to keep things truly lean would be to restrict who you can follow.
