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Comment on Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user?

karasu_sue@pf.korako.me ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Mastodon is used by me alone and costs ¥1590/month.
Misskey is free with OCI for less than 5 people.
PieFed is ¥491/month.

Lemmy is the biggest server in Japan, but I host it at home because it has about 5 MAUs.
(Unfortunately, it is not popular in Japan.)

Media is R2, but it is still within the limits of no billing.

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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

¥1590/month.

Rough $11/month in freedom dollars. That’s not bad!

Still pricey for a solo use. What is your use cases? Lurking or a frequent poster?

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- karasu_sue@pf.korako.me ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I probably post frequently.
  Number of Posts by Month
  
  File servers and multiple BOTs are also running.
  
  It may be a little expensive, but it is a typical amount of money for a VPS that runs Mastodon somewhat comfortably in Japan.
  SAKURA internet VPS
  
  ※Sorry, I'm using machine translation.
  
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  - ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Your machine translation is working well.
    
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- wesley@yall.theatl.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yea that seems pretty high. I have a solo pixelfed server that runs around $5 / month. It doesn’t get a lot of use though
  
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