I'm curious, how much does it cost you, monthly, on average, to participate in the fediverse?
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@stefan My host doesn't accept donations. I guess I should donate to some fediverse projects directly (e.g., mastodon, although I've heard that project is somewhat hampered by it's leadership?)
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@SirLich Yes, always a great option!
I run my own server, but have donated to admins of other servers in the past.
And the great thing is that when you donate to developers of non-Mastodon platforms, these folks often share ideas and work together, so you can still affect Mastodon positively!
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@stefan I can't currently afford to donate to my Fediverse admins, but I start a new job in a couple of weeks with a big pay bump so I plan on at least making some one-time donations once the funds are a little less tight
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@trainguyrom Nice, very generous of you!
Good luck with your new job, hope you'll enjoy it!
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I don't have a lot of extra money so I offer time, by doing moderation and such. Not sure how to put a value on that.
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@EverydayMoggie Yeah, it would've made sense to include an option for that. Sorry!
(And thank you for all your effort!)
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I wish I had the money to support my instances (both primary and the ones who host my bots)
But I’m also VERY glad that I don’t HAVE to pay for any of it as that would totally lock me out
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Alien_Sunset last edited by [email protected]
@Alien_Sunset I'm really happy that we're able to, as a community, split the costs and share resources to keep the various servers and services running!
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This poll about how much the fediverse costs you, in particular, is interesting:
https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113702381432788584
My server costs *me* nothing in dollars but a lot in labour. Other people paid this year's hardware, hosting and power bills, but I provide moderation, debugging and childcare that keeps things moving.
I think a nontrivial amount of unpaid labour goes into a lot of servers. But if I wasn't doing this I'd be supporting my friends on this server in other ways!
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@stefan The Well online community offers email, private discussion forums and a mastodon server for $15 a month. We turn 40 next year.
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@mazz Huge milestone, congratulations!
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@terri Thank you for sharing!
Yes, I should've included options for non-monetary costs/contributions as well. The poll was mainly intended as a response to the news about X increasing their subscription price, so that's kind of the general context.
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@stefan
"Some of the responses claiming that the fediverse is free. I wish!"Instance owner doesn't accept donations afaik
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@HugeGameArtGD Yeah, I've seen a few answers like this, interesting!
I suppose it's a good thing when an admin is that confident in the server's longevity. And it's an opportunity to support some other server, perhaps one where your friends are, instead!
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Ah, I could've sworn I set this to run for three days. Still, good sample size, and great insights. Thanks to everyone who shared this and contributed!
I did a short write-up on my blog:
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@stefan My instance is run democratically on co-operative principles. The membership is about $12 per year, though many of us voluntarily contribute more than that. I do, and it's still less than $5 per month. And as I understand, we're running well within our budget.
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@foolishowl Very nice!
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Snooze Button Connoisseurreplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan
It would be cool if you can repeat the poll on a regular basis, perhaps twice per year to see the trends -
Stefan Bohacekreplied to Snooze Button Connoisseur last edited by
@bayport Good idea!
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@stefan I think I'm in the $5 bracket.
I have use a subdomain of a domain I already use for things.
I run the actual application on a laptop I use to watch media on at home.. so it would be on anyway.
I just keep a tiny EC2 VM to proxy requests back to the home laptop and have a static public IP.
I reckon this quite minimal
