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Clarifying Costs of Running the Fediverse with Jerry from Infosec.Exchange (blenderdumbass.org)

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[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

He is right though, 5000 USD per month for an instance with 12k monthly active users is completely unrealistic, or it is run very inefficiently. mastodon.world is a similar size and costs much less than 2300 Euro per month (which includes numerous other instances like lemmy.world etc).