On the Fireside Fedi interview with Jerry ( the admin of Infosec.Exchange Mastodon instance ) a scary truth was suddenly revealed ( on 34:11 ): Just to keep the instance up and running he needs to spend up to $5000 a month, pretty much out of his pocket. Donations to the instance barely cover any of that. And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.
  • aasatru@kbin.earth
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    3 days ago

    Seems to be some misunderstanding somewhere - Jerry states elsewhere that the costs are covered by donations.

    The Mastodon instance I’m on has around 200 people (not all of them active), and received around €800 in donations last year,. Total costs were less than €300.

    I think the problem of scaling kicks in when we go after demographics that are less charitable on average.