i can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    Depending on how much the admin hosting this instance pays for it, I’d disagree. This is the largest instance by a fair margin so hosting costs* may not be a negligible expense anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I just saw their financials. For May, their server costs were about $600, including their massive Mastodon server.

    Not a negligible expense, but easily recoverable from the 10k+ active users

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Any chance you could say where you found their financials? I’ve been fruitlessly searching for them for the last week.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    It was posted in https://lemmy.ml/comment/1240593

    Direct link: https://blog.mastodon.world/april-and-may-2023-financial-update

    I just now noticed that these numbers are just for Mastodon.world, before they spun up Lemmy.world. But I also remember one of the bigger isntances posting about their massive server upgrade, and it was very much in line with these figures.

    ETA: There's another blog post there with server specs: https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world

    32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Thank you, their financials seem not to be a big concern for now. I imagine the administrators will begin posting their patreon more frequently in this instance if costs become cumbersome in the long-term. I’m not certain whether they’re dipping into their relatively sizable savings from mastodon or whether they’re keeping funding separate, but they’re not in immediate danger, nonetheless.

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