Lesley Carhart 
Scott Stanton 
@hacks4pancakes @da_667 @jerry I imagine if there is a need for funding, a GoFundMe would go a long way to covering those costs.
@scott_stanton @da_667 @jerry it’s here! It doesn’t seem like he’s getting enough for all this work and stuff!!! https://liberapay.com/Infosec.exchange/
@hacks4pancakes @da_667 @jerry This should be pinned somewhere! I would not have found it unless you posted it.
Dave Dugal 🔒
@scott_stanton @hacks4pancakes @da_667 @jerry
Welp, there's always https://liberapay.com/Infosec.exchange/
Welp, there's always https://liberapay.com/Infosec.exchange/
Jerry 🦙💝🦙@hacks4pancakes @da_667 I am good on money. I think we can scale to perhaps 200k users now.
@hacks4pancakes @da_667 I am gong to tell you (and 6m friends) a secret. I’ve been a CISO at $megacorp and my days are spent flattening the folds of my brain in 14 hours of Webexes every day. This has been the most exciting, most fun thing I’ve done it years.
Mike Johnson 
Adam Hall @jerry @hacks4pancakes @da_667 thank you Jerry, I’ve been investigating standing up an instance for my own little playground and it’s … a lot :)
You’re making nearly 20k peoples lives better!
Jef Kazimer😶🌫️@Adman @jerry @hacks4pancakes @da_667 I am still not clear on the benefit of having a personal instance for a single user. There would be no local feed other than your own toots?
So you would only have your federated feed to see other toots, so may need to follow more people?
@hacks4pancakes @jerry @JefTek @da_667 correct. The only reasons to do it so far as I can tell are to have a vanity handle and/or as a way to learn what it takes to deploy and operate before taking a run at a larger community.
@Adman @hacks4pancakes @jerry @da_667 That makes sense. I saw the "privacy" aspect as you would be your own server admin, but I thought it would be at a loss of any local community.
@JefTek @hacks4pancakes @jerry @da_667 with the way follows work, TBH I’m reading my Home feed for the most part and not the Local. So for some it might be an ok trade off.
Plus you can always have an account on an instance and see that local too!
@Adman @hacks4pancakes @jerry @da_667 that is a good point. I use local feed to discover new people but I suppose as you follow more you would discover people from boosted posts.
So it's just a VM.... Maybe I'll go read the docs
@JefTek @Adman @hacks4pancakes @da_667 its the IKEA effect. Many of us are technologists and aren’t happy being “users” of someone else’s site if we can roll our own. Some others what the unilateral ability to block instances at will and not have to live under some other instance’s rules and moderator whims. Some thing it’s more privacy centric - i.e, my data’s are safe is they're on MY system
@jerry @Adman @hacks4pancakes @da_667 Oh I fully understand it the curiosity factor. Earlier tonight I was thinking "Well I could just spin up a VM and give it a whirl" :D
Super Sheep@jerry @JefTek @Adman @hacks4pancakes @da_667 Some people just enjoy self-hosting. I’ve been self-hosting as much as I can (web, mail, “cloud”, DNS, various chats: IRC, SILC, XMPP, Matrix) since ~2001 when I bought my personal domain. It can be challenging, although I argue it’s way easier today than it ever was. I’ve always found it fun and a nice break from all my other tech obsessions. I have some FreeBSD jails I host at home for my colo/services and considering standing up a Mastodon instance in a new jail just for the craic.
@qutluch @JefTek @Adman @hacks4pancakes @da_667 like I said, it scratches that itch for many technical people.
William Byatt@JefTek @Adman @jerry @hacks4pancakes @da_667 I was curious about that as well, so I created this account on my own server and another one on hachyderm. I think the tradeoff is mostly opt-in vs. opt-out. On hachyderm it's easier to scroll for passive content, but on this account, my feed is created with more interaction and buy-in from myself.
Accidental CISO
Tanawts@jerry @hacks4pancakes @da_667 it's awesome to use the noggin for doing technical stuff again after mgmt for long ya?
Michael Olsen@jerry @hacks4pancakes @da_667 awwwww thank you for sharing this, and thank you for putting your skills to good use on our behalf!
Adam BarnettEarlier this year a friend of mine who is a CISO told me he was jealous because I still got to play with computers at work, @jerry @hacks4pancakes @da_667
Matt Linton @jerry @hacks4pancakes @da_667 I think I know how you feel, Jerry. I'm firmly in manager land these days but I just can't stop myself from maintaining my own colo rack for hobby projects.
And, yes, my own mail server. Still!
Jay Schwitzgebel@jerry @hacks4pancakes @da_667 I love that for you! It’s a crazy wonderful thing you’ve built here, and this frequent-visitor-from-another-instance is grateful for it, too!
BryanTheSnail@hacks4pancakes @da_667 @jerry Lesley, I'm not sure you need to feel bad. I think that somewhere deep inside, as he was putting this instance together, @jerry was thinking to himself "If you build it, they will come."