Not just speaking technically but economically. As user number mount up their post is just going to add up. I know instaces may distribute user, but server space isn’t going to go down for anyone. It just seems like built to fall.
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i think the resources youre referring to are easily, fluidly handled and there should be no long term concern as strategies are developed to handle those resources. server space can be recycled, caches cleared, etc.
youre not wrong in that storage is a concern, but it is one of the cheaper components from my POV running a full instance.
Without ad revenue, I think server bill will pille up quick. I wish we could have insight from someone running instance.
i think the only sustainable model is having a donation process built into the site. its very successful in other platforms.
its that or ads. no one wants that.
my storage costs are currently < 1/10th of the total o f my other costs. sitting at $1.00/day on one of the most expensive providers. my server has 12 users
running a full cdn, cloudfront, smtp, etc.
Just purge stuff older than X if storage becomes an issue and make people use image hosts outside of lemmy
I’m more of an archivist, belive that will cause loss of many meaningfull conversation and information.
@Cloudkid@lemmus.org This is where hosting your own instance is better as even things on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter won’t last forever as it only really stays till they can’t be bothered to keep the older stuff no one looks at intact, The only way to make sure things stay is by hosting it yourself and I really do hope it gets easier over time to host your own Fediverse Instance.
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com Glad you’re having fun with Mbin, I know I recently moved across to Mbin on Kbin.run as of the bug fixes and stuff. Sadly don’t know how to create my own instance as would love to create it on a sub-domain of the website I run for business as I’m sure connecting to the Fediverse from my own instance would be really cool and would help me control what I see, so much more also would make it easier when it comes to getting Family and Friends Involved.
theres a great crew in the devs/other admins of mbin on matrix, and i am always happy to help if you ever decide to give it a go.
you can probably do it very cheaply. i went the most expensive route, and im payin ~$1.00/day. not using aws, you could maybe that down to $0.25 one thing to keep in mind, once your instance is up with a domain name (myinstance.mydomain.com) it cant really be changed.
im an old sysadmin, i hate social media… i just like looking at the numbers…keeping things running. my hate for the new reddit has overtaken my hate for social media.
