stux⚡️Nov 15, 2019
I’m not wrong here, am I?
Show threadstux⚡️Nov 15, 2019

Little FYI;

I am NOT earning ANYTHING from mstdn.social 😉 In fact it's the opposite, Every week I work about 40-50 hours for a company so I can earn money and pay for the servers, domain, media storage and email services and don't get me wrong. I'm VERY happy to do that ❤️ and I will NOT stop doing that for a long time!

We do get donations and that's a BIG help! But still I need to pay much from my own pocket so keep that in mind. We are not a company, we are not Twitter, we drive on #love! ❤️

Show threadTarique Sani Nov 16, 2019
@stux Curious what’s the per month cost of keeping this instance running?
Show threadstux⚡️Nov 16, 2019
@tariquesani Currently around €125-€150 ;-)
Show threadmewmew Nov 16, 2019
@stux @tariquesani oh wow, Mastodon is really expensive 
Show threadTarique Sani Nov 16, 2019

@mewmew and this will keep going up as the users increase. We users should be willing to pitch in soon.

@stux

Show threadmewmew Nov 16, 2019
@tariquesani @stux yeah

hopefully you'll decentralize in the long run (start your own, smaller instances)
Show threadTarique Sani 
@mewmew that would be a type of pitching in too. I am very tempted to start a #mentalhealth focused instance but that seems self defeating. We need more general topic instances talking about it. @stux
Nov 16, 2019 at 3:50pmWeb
Show threadmewmew Nov 16, 2019
@tariquesani @stux nah, that'd be good to have - more instances on any topic are a plus

If you want to easily set up an instance I recommend Pleroma (pleroma.social), it's much cheaper and easier to set up.

If you want help, just ask
Pleroma — a lightweight fediverse server

Show threadwolfieNov 16, 2019
@tariquesani @mewmew @stux Why not both? Sometimes people might want to talk in a more isolated way but also have a public forum, no?
Show threadTarique Sani Nov 16, 2019

@wolfie Sssshhh... I am also a lazy old man 😜

@mewmew @stux