I was just going to post that part. It's crazy considering they run a slightly modified mastodon backend and frontend. Sure, they needed some mobile devs to bra

I was just going to post that part. It's crazy considering they run a slightly modified mastodon backend and frontend. Sure, they needed some mobile devs to brand it (maybe contractors?) and some backend devs and ops (those would likely be permanent). But that still feels way off what they spend. For CDN they're using cloudflare, probably on enterprise pricing which would save them lots of money on image transfer. To be clear, this is only looking at the costs of running the platform itself. I don't know if they have a moderation team or spend lots on advertising.