John GruberJan 31, 2023

I like the fact that mastodon.social is the biggest instance, but I would leave for an instance that is paid only, say $10/month, has a cool domain name, and thus can afford to raise the rate limits.

Mastodon.social feels like early Twitter both culturally (good), and fail-whale-wise (not good).

Show threadTim BrayJan 31, 2023

@gruber

I'm working with some people who trying to set up an instance which is a member-owned co-op. A bit of spreadsheeting suggests that for a large-ish instance you could run just fine on $5/month.

Show threadGlenn FleishmanJan 31, 2023
@timbray @gruber I’ve been hoping that within another few months, membership organizations that already run some technical resources (like email boxes or forwarding) would add "Mastodon instance" to their package. I expect only a small %age of members would want it, but it would a great tool to encourage sign-ups if run professionally.
Show threadPaul McGrane
@glennf @timbray @gruber It would be nice to see it as part of iCloud+ but that would necessitate a big client software change on System Settings & etc (should Messages support fediverse? Mail? neither seems quite right) … so MacOS 15 & ilk? Quite a waiting period.
Jan 31, 2023 at 11:19pmWeb