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"In 2024, it cost $N to run a Mastodon instance with ~1000 active users for a year. By the end of 2025, that figure had dropped to $0.5N, due to the launch of X, Y, Z."
What are X, Y, and Z?
In terms of cost, consider systems administration and moderation as paid work, even if the admin is not paying themselves for either of these things.
@mekkaokereke X, Y, and Z are all downsampling giant jpegs and pngs to <100k jpegs.
@mekkaokereke For both local and remote posts, only show severely reduced size images direct in-feed. On click to expand, show full quality if local (possibly with upload size limits) and either iframe the remote from originating instance if permissions allow it, or show moderate size cached copy.
Instances should start setting policy headers to allow such iframing for known friendly federated peers.
@mekkaokereke Or even just remote src img rather than iframe, but I'm not sure if you can access control that with referer possibly being suppressed (as it should be).