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Who is gonna pay to host the open distributed platform? Surely not the users
by willitpamp573 9y ago
Who is gonna pay to host the open distributed platform? Surely not the users
- bigphishy 9y agoI don't have any figures, let's just 5 servers running containerized environments, with a couple of decent uplinks, it is feasible to handle bandwidth of a million users for a few thousand a month. With a million users, it's feasible to support the site with donations... no funding or IPO's needed... In addition, there are numberous open-source frameworks ( like gnu-social etc. ) that enable a single person to deploy the code onto the servers.
- umeshunni 9y ago"Please Read: A Personal Appeal From <open distributed platform> Founder" a la Wikipedia
- egypturnash 9y agoSo far Mastodon seems to be doing okay on a mix of "I wanna run a server for me and a few friends" and "I'm running a server, here's the Patreon to help pay for it".