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If I read the numbers correctly, they have monthly costs of about $0.07 per user. Interesting, when you compare that to Twitter: https://masto.ai/@mg/10939448

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• capableweb 4y ago
  I'm not sure it is that interesting, it makes sense. Twitter is a huge organization optimized for reach and earning money by serving its audience ads, with big structure around all of that. While Fosstodon is a more of loose collective of people spending their free time trying to run a free service for a community around FOSS, with optimizations geared towards making the service itself cheap to run but still resilient and performant. That they end up at different costs per user at that scale (or even more) makes a lot of sense in my head.
  • TaylorAlexander 4y ago
    I find the actual figures interesting. We tend to imagine that to run a web service you have to run ads, but it sounds like all the work required to build out that infrastructure adds so much cost that offering a donation supported service with no ads may be more viable now.
• agilob 4y ago
  Are users the only metric that counts? Some users post nothing, others post every 20mins average during 24hours. The more activity you have have, the more problems you have, backup costs don't grow linearly. Twitter probably has some SLO that are promised to paying customers, both for displaying ads and giving access to unrestricted APIs, this also grows more than linearly. That said... CxO of masto.ai probably aren't paid 100s of millions$$$ and don't deal with international regulatory issues in Slovakia?