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] 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.
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 for the domain name, which would be about $2/month.
Ooops, forgot to include ~ $25/year 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!
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!
@[email protected] @[email protected] I host my own instance in a cupboard at home, and spend like £4 a month on the tiniest cheapest VPS I could find as a media cache to protect my home connection from the fedi hug of death.
@[email protected] My biggest cost is the domain name, as .social aren’t cheap (looks like a scam business at this price for a domain name).
@[email protected] hosting my own peertube and mastodon server (9,53 €/month) and two monthly donations.
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🥥 Eye included the cost 4 my internet provider in my calculations, Stefan. 🥥@[email protected] @[email protected] I believe in chipping in for services I use often that would otherwise be free. I hope that other folks who can afford to chip in do so.
@[email protected] in my case, cosocial.ca is cooperatively owned. So, I’m paying for a say in that, as well as receiving the services.
@[email protected] I call it $12/mo because that’s what the unlimited VPS that I dedicated to the instance costs, but I’m able to ignore a few costs like DNS, email service, storage, etc. because they’re already baked into other things I run and have little or no incremental costs.
