This poll about how much the fediverse costs you, in particular, is interesting:
Stefan Bohacek (@[email protected])
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. #fediverse #poll [ ] It's completely free! [ ] Less than $5 [ ] $5-10 [ ] $11-50 [ ] $51-100 [ ] $100+ [ ] $1,000+
Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server (stefanbohacek.online)
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!