> hachyderm.io had trouble scaling ... with 30,000 users and over $5000 worth of equipment... They were able to migrate ... to Digital Ocean ... at a cost ...

> hachyderm.io had trouble scaling ... with 30,000 users and over $5000 worth of equipment... They were able to migrate ... to Digital Ocean ... at a cost ... [of] more than $1000/mo. 1 TB of data fits several time in a typical consumer HDD. Is it really not enough to have $5,000 USD of hardware to run a 30K-user Mastodon instance?