@thisismissem @mekkaokereke @dma so stats, based on dec 2024 exit run rate (rounded for simplicity):

#hachyderm costs about $1600/mo to run. this is up somewhat, as we've started to add some infra as part of our resilience plan announced in nov.

we currently have about:
- 55000 users
- 9700 MAU
- 3.7M toots

yielding:
- $.03/user/mo
- $.16/active user/mo
- $.0004/toot

from a raw compute & storage perspective.

again, this is based on 100% volunteer work. today, our mods and infra folk graciously donate their time to keep this thing going.

hypothetically, if we paid them, say, $120k USD/yr (chose this to make the math cleaner), that would add $10k/person/mo to the cost.

if we go with a staff of eight (mix of mod & infra), that adds $80k/mo to the run rate, for a total of $81,600/mo, yielding:

- $1.48/user/mo
- $8.41/active user/mo
- the toot figure is silly, so i'm not calculating it again  

orders of magnitude of difference.

we could argue about the staff size - i went with roughly what we have today and assumed we made everyone full time so they could hachy for 32/hr/wk vs. calculating the number of hours we actually work. e.g. maybe we could it out at ~$4.50/user/mo, but still a multiple orders of magnitude bump from the raw infra cost.

@pluralistic

A shout out from me for the FB Purity browser extension https://www.fbpurity.com/ .

For those of us with friends that we can't persuade to move (or often big groups that would need reinventing on another platform), it's up there with adblocking as a way of rewriting the terms of the bargain in our favour by hiding anything you haven't chosen to follow. Extra stubbornness in our refusal to do things his way.