Mastodawn

Deviant Ollam Nov 18, 2022

So, I definitely want to see Mastodon remain healthy and continue forward, but I wouldn't mind if someone could explain this to me a little more...

https://atomicpoet.org/objects/edff069b-bc28-4b18-ac37-a3173723c31e

... Aren't the posting and operational costs associated with the Fediverse borne by all the individual instances? What costs does the overarching org have? (Not being snarky, I'm sure they exist, I just wish I understood more)

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Greppy Nov 18, 2022

@deviantollam
$21,000 a month is not a lot of money to pay developers to work full time. Regardless of the hosting costs every app runs in to problems when scaling at this rate. Something is going to break. They prolly need more devs & stuff.

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Deviant Ollam

@grep_ip oh, gosh, yeah. I actually was forgetting about the fact that this is an actively maintained product with Central development. I was thinking only of hosting costs. You're absolutely right.