Intuitively, it is unlikely there's 500K individual servers set up. We can then also observe other comments clarifying that no, there aren't 500K instances. T

Intuitively, it is unlikely there's 500K individual servers set up. We can then also observe other comments clarifying that no, there aren't 500K instances. The other comments provide...tweets? mastodons?...from the maintainer also clarify that in practice, there's 1 instance. People are questioning how that will scale, and the tweet from the maintainer was cited as part of that because the content of the tweet is that tl;dr there's a $2,600 month gap between Patreon and hosting costs.