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How does scaling laws of the fediverse differ to scaling laws of email? Hadn’t the success of email already shown that it’s possible to scale decentralized prot

• Ciantic 4y ago
  It's possible, but there is no advertisements, and most servers are run by volunteers. Right now, with current tech stack, which isn't most efficient I heard Leo Laporte who runs TWiT Podcast network and ~5000 user https://twit.social https://twit.social server it costs him 380 dollars / month for fully hosted using https://masto.host https://masto.host server. Sure it can scale, it's not harder than newsletters, but it needs money, I have serious doubts it can scale without advertisements.
  • progval 4y ago
    It doesn't cost that much when properly configured and on dedicated hardware. My own instance, oc.todon.fr (running since 2017 and with currently ~2500 users), runs on a 5€/month server (HTTP front-end) and less than a quarter of the resources of a 800€ server at home.
• tablespoon 4y ago
  > How does scaling laws of the fediverse differ to scaling laws of email? Hadn’t the success of email already shown that it’s possible to scale decentralized protocols? It's only kinda decentralized now. Email massively re-centralized around gmail and a few other providers.