> People are decentralizing because it gets damn expensive to run more than 100,000+ users (or so) on a single server that is owned by a hobbyist / part-time sy

> People are decentralizing because it gets damn expensive to run more than 100,000+ users (or so) on a single server that is owned by a hobbyist / part-time sysadmin. Is it? If only a tint percentage of the userbase would donate some negligible amount, it can run indefinitely. Computers are insanely cheap compared to the possible value they can produce. Also, if they wouldn’t put random websocket connections for no good reason than it would scale much better (khm, lemmy)