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It’s a valid point. Renting servers sucks, setting up mastodon sucks. When do we see “Hosted mastodon AAS”?
by dumbo-octopus 2y ago
It’s a valid point. Renting servers sucks, setting up mastodon sucks. When do we see “Hosted mastodon AAS”?
- KerrAvon 2y agoIt exists: https://masto.host/ https://masto.host/
- legostormtroopr 2y agoDoesn't this defeat the purpose of decentralisation and the fediverse? Now, you've just moved everyone to hosted Mastodon, and why not make it even easier - instead of hosting multiple mastodons, just make one single mastodon everyone signs up to... and we've just reinvented Twitter.
- dumbo-octopus 2y agoYes, exactly. Every decentralized service eventually backend dominated by a small number of service access providers who are actually willing to deal with hardware.
- dumbo-octopus 2y ago*eventually becomes
- wut42 2y agoAnd even the self hosted instances are mostly in a couple of ISPs. (OVH; Hetzner; …).
- WorldMaker 2y agoIt is one of the reasons I appreciate masto.host as the owner has made it clear that signups are gated in part by how much of the fediverse it collectively hosts, because they don't want to be a central point of failure, they do want to encourage competition, and they also don't want the headaches of running that big of an instance population.
- S0y 2y agoThere's also: https://fedihost.co/ https://fedihost.co/