Comment on Clarifying Costs of Running the Fediverse with Jerry from Infosec.Exchange
kayky@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Did they share any receipts or official documents to back up their claims?
They have a really good racket going on and want to make sure people keep giving them way more money than is necessary.
Money brings out the worst in people.
They have a really good racket going on and want to make sure people keep giving them way more money than is necessary. It’s simply not true that Infosec.Exchange requires $5000/month to operate unless they’re doing something very wrong or just straight up lying.
Yes, internet rando. I totally believe your solid calculations based on … vibe?
We failed the instance operators if they need to lie about money. What we need to insure is that those people can both run the instance and live a live worth of envy from the money provided by the supporters. Meaning any money above the costs is good money. Any money below the margin of live worthy of envy is not enough money. The line is not at being able to pay for hosting. The line is at live worthy of envy.
We failed the instance operators if they need to lie about money.
Wtf…
I swear, a fool and his money are soon parted.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
He is right though, 5000 USD per month for an instance with 12k monthly active users is completely unrealistic. mastodon.world is a similar size and costs much less than 2300 Euro per month (which includes numerous other instances like lemmy.world etc).
kayky@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Like I said, money brings out the worst in people.
You’re free to provide evidence to prove me wrong.