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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 is an activity transfer relay. Similar to mail transfer relays, in SMTP.
Y is a shared media storage pool.
Z is automated spam filtering.
Shlee fucked around and @jenniferplusplus @mekkaokereke I want to believe.
Y+: I've been tooting this horn for too long so I've kind of given up, but I think it's one of the highest priorities to resolve for admins as a whole... not very high for devs it seems tho so who knows.
Z+: akismet for AP (shared threat data).. SEO spam account has a common username/email/ip/URLs in profile/posts
A SEO spammer shoudn't be able to move from instance to instance... share that data around
@mekkaokereke Actually, I should note that while I think it's important to cut the cost of running fediverse servers, there's only so much savings to be had.
I think it's more important to create ways for servers to generate revenue and be financially self-sufficient. And to do so without selling ads, because the incentive structures that advertising creates are anathema to the aspects of this place that are actually good.
I'm hoping it can be done with paid features.