Mastodon generally encourages users to host their own instance of it. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-y

Mastodon generally encourages users to host their own instance of it. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/ Many people run theirs on a small VPS, raspberry pi, etc. and there are a number of 'paid hosting' providers for Mastodon servers too. In practice, this all means yes: unlike a blog, it is a complex web application, and caching and whether a CDN is in use are up to the person hosting it. Mastodon can also be fairly expensive to run, depending on how many images/videos people upload, traffic they bring to the instance, etc.