I’m curious, how much does it cost you, monthly, on average, to participate in the fediverse?
Including voluntary donations to your server admins, fediverse apps and other software, your own server, etc. Any money you spend directly towards keeping the fediverse going.
#fediverse #poll
@[email protected]
I forget to pay each year, but each year I get the Liberapay reminder by email and I pay my yearly dues :anarchoheart3: :anarchoheart3: :anarchoheart3:I don’t have a lot of extra money so I offer time, by doing moderation and such. Not sure how to put a value on that.
@[email protected] Yeah, it would’ve made sense to include an option for that. Sorry!
(And thank you for all your effort!)
@[email protected] 90/m just for the server, 20-30 a month in storage
@[email protected] £30 a month Heztner server, which also hosts other projects.
For me:
- $24/month for hosting my server (where I also host 50+ bots https://stefans-creative-bots.glitch.me)
- $5/month for hosting uploaded media (this is shared among a few other of my projects)
- I’ve also made several, mostly one-time donations to Mastodon-related projects and developers and I’m a bit too lazy to add it all up.
So, probably in the $11-50 bracket?
@[email protected] It used to cost me the electricity usage of my cluster at home :D Now I’m donating to the keep the gardenstate.social afloat.
I need to see how to come back to self-hosted again.
Ooops, forgot to include ~ $25/year for the domain name, which would be about $2/month.
Ooops, forgot to include ~ $25 for the domain name, which would be about $2/month.
I wish I had the money to support my instances (both primary and the ones who host my bots)
But I’m also VERY glad that I don’t HAVE to pay for any of it as that would totally lock me out
@[email protected] I’m really happy that we’re able to, as a community, split the costs and resources to keep the various servers and services running!
@[email protected] I don’t spend much cash on it, but with all the time I spend on it, the opportunity cost is probably quite high.
@[email protected] I would donate to my server if I had money
@[email protected] I opted for $5/month to the instance I’m using (paid yearly).
Inspired, of course, by the news about X raising the cost of their Premium Plus subscription by 40%, and some of the responses claiming that the fediverse is free. I wish!
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/23/24327918/x-premium-plus-subscription-price-increases
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-ways-we-keep-the-fediverse-sustainable/
#fediverse #SocialMedia #sustainability
@[email protected] Costs me nothing… I’d have the same ISP costs and electricity costs whether I was running a server or not (the VM might be increasing the electricity cost a few pennies but it’s barely measurable).
@[email protected] nothing yet but I guess there may be a call for donations if the hw needs updating
@[email protected] It was previously $25 - 30/month as I was running on a DO droplet.
Now that I’ve migrated it to a Nuc (with more resources!) though, it’s basically just power.
It’s truly encouraging to see how generous people in this community are. And this is not even including the many mutual aid donations people here make!
#fediverse
@[email protected] So far completely free but if my admin needs me to contribute I am there, obviously.
@[email protected] nice to see that most people care!
