> While I'm glad and support that people donate to their instance, I would encourage more people to start their own instance instead of donating.
Sure… but then what?
I probably have the technical chops to setup an instance that won’t end up in a botnet in the first five minutes but that’s about it. No clue how to get people to responsibly (aka moderation) use it or even how to tell people there’s a new instance out there. Federation and all that, assuming there’s coordination between sysops in some way.
And judging by TFA the software is a dog so there’s non-trivial expenses involved. Or take a month to make my own implementation in C++ and have people accuse me of crimes against humanity because I don’t want to learn rust. Maybe there’s better options, dunno?
I assume this is all just backend stuff where people bring their own client?
I actually like figuring out how stuff like this works but “just run your own instance” isn’t helpful.
Admittedly, I haven’t even asked the google any of this but one thing I do know is I can’t afford to spend $1,800/month on anything that doesn’t generate significantly more income than that.
Sure… but then what?
I probably have the technical chops to setup an instance that won’t end up in a botnet in the first five minutes but that’s about it. No clue how to get people to responsibly (aka moderation) use it or even how to tell people there’s a new instance out there. Federation and all that, assuming there’s coordination between sysops in some way.
And judging by TFA the software is a dog so there’s non-trivial expenses involved. Or take a month to make my own implementation in C++ and have people accuse me of crimes against humanity because I don’t want to learn rust. Maybe there’s better options, dunno?
I assume this is all just backend stuff where people bring their own client?
I actually like figuring out how stuff like this works but “just run your own instance” isn’t helpful.
Admittedly, I haven’t even asked the google any of this but one thing I do know is I can’t afford to spend $1,800/month on anything that doesn’t generate significantly more income than that.