Aral BalkanNov 8, 2022

What happens when you have your own Mastodon instance (just for you) where over 21,000 people follow you and when you’re following over 4,300 people?

You end up paying ~€50/month for Mastodon hosting 👀

It also opens up interesting questions: what happens when a popular account joins your instance (hint: it will probably cost the instance maintainers quite a bit… I don’t envy the mastodon.nu folks right now).

#fediverse #mastodon

Show threadAral BalkanNov 8, 2022

This stuff is never free anywhere but the scale of Big Tech insulates you from it somewhat.

I actually think it’s good to be reminded that our ability to communicate comes with a cost – in terms of resources, environmental impact, etc., not just money.

But, equally, it also makes the case that a system optimised to host hundreds of thousands of people on a single instance is not also somehow magically optimised to host just one person.

The latter is the problem I’m exploring with #SmallWeb.

Show threadChris Beiting
@aral any indication how frequent @mastohost clears out the media cache? I have the little moon plan and I’m already near 8gb of media. To move up to the next tier isn’t a big deal…but knowing if/when the media cache is cleared out wouldn’t hurt — especially if that will let me not bump up to my limit in a week or two.
Nov 8, 2022 at 4:38pmWeb
Show threadMasto.hostNov 8, 2022

@chris @aral

- 7 days for media files in posts
- 30 days for preview cards in links
- 90 days for preview cards in other media types (videos/photos)

Source: https://masto.host/remote-media-cache-backups/

Remote Media Cache Backups | Masto.host

Masto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy.

Masto.host
Show threadChris BeitingNov 8, 2022
@mastohost thanks for the clarification. Now that I see that I read it before, hopefully I stay within the storage I have now! 😬
Show threadНасакото ЯкатаNov 8, 2022
@chris @mastohost Wouldn't it just bump out your oldest cache items if you do fill it up?
Show threadMichael Brooks Nov 8, 2022
@chris @aral @mastohost If they're using the default cache settings, then it will be weekly, but it might be worth contacting them to find out since it doesn't look like they have that information on their site.