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@rglullis I think the donation model is working ok at this scale, but I don’t believe it will scale up to the hypothetical future we were discussing on the show where the fediverse became the social media platform for the masses. There are somewhere around 1 to 2 million active fediverse users, depending on how you count. If that were 100x or 1000x larger, we would simply crumble - I don’t think the general architecture scales that well (think of all the duplicate storage that we end up paying for across various instance) and generally, people who use social media are far less concerned with the core value propositions of the fediverse, like privacy and whatnot. I know that’s hard to accept, but we’re here because that’s how we think. So no, I don’t think we will have a future where a 500,000,000 active user fediverse can be operated off of donations from members. I also very much doubt that people would pay a fee to be here when corporate social media alternatives are “free” to them

@hisao @rglullis I’m using Hetzner for server hosting and a mix of wasabi and a Hetzner hosted minio server for storage. I’m trying to get out of wasabi, but they seem to be the best performance/availability mix with a not ridiculous price.

@rglullis @blenderdumbass I have donations from members that cover the costs.

@Chozo @Novamdomum can you DM me your IP address? The site has been under a heavy ddos by scrapers and I think my script to identify those scrapers got a little carried away.