Mastodawn

So uh, apparently $288/year is not enough to run a Mastodon service for ~3 users, and this is a known issue (https://masto.host/mastodon-content-retention-settings/) with no solution (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/19260)?!

I just want to own my identity. On Bluesky, it takes a TXT record and a did:plc rotation key. A PDS takes like $25/yr. For $300/yr you can run a whole-network relay.

Also, it's unclear if I can move to non-Mastodon software without losing all my posts, despite owning the domain??

And this ecosystem sneers at atproto?

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ikuturso 🇪🇺

@filippo how confident are you that you truly own your identity after you've done that though? Would you still consider the setup just as useful if you ended up being permanently banned from being able to interact with 99% of users on ATproto because a single corporation decided you're not worth including? Because that is absolutely something that can still happen even if you plunked down the $10k/yr that you'd need to run the full ATproto stack for microblogging.