I'm considering setting aside the compute resources to host some small salon-sized (say 16 user) instances to see how well they develop.

I would be willing to set up and host ~10 of these as an experiment, and would commit to both operating them for at least a year and to making them as easy to move as possible should a particular salon decide they'd prefer to self-host.

I would like to offer either postActiv or Mastodon servers for this at the salon's choice.

Would there be interest?

To be clearer, this would be a "bring your guests" situation - I would not have an account on each.

I would also expect you'd bring a (sub) domain, although I have a few domains I could offer a subdomain on if a group needed one.

@djsundog If you decide to go through with this, I for sure know some folks that would be interested.
@ajr cool cool - so long as I don't come up with some major reason this is a horrible idea for me to do, I'll probably put together some system to start this up over the next week - I'll ping you :)