veedems,
@veedems@mastodon.social avatar

Between app purchases and donations to the network itself, I’ve spent more money in a year on Mastodon than I have in a lifetime on traditional, centralized algorithmic social media.

I appreciate not being the product, just the user.

#mastodon #fediverse

peter,
@peter@area51.social avatar

@veedems @lenzgr I know what you mean.

I run my own instance & it's not cheap.

Going to look at hosting it locally at home, but as you say, I pay more for it than I do for anything else & that's a good thing.

Same for peerTube for video.

lenzgr,
@lenzgr@mastodon.social avatar

@peter @veedems where do you currently host it? Could you quantity "not cheap"?

peter,
@peter@area51.social avatar

@lenzgr @veedems Right now I'm hosting mastodon and peertube on a linode which is currently costing me £60+ a month for the pair.

Now for peertube, the static content is separate but for the backend it doesn't need to be external so I should be able to move them to a local vm for both, and the videos stay external.

Should save me a lot in £££'s each month

lenzgr,
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@peter @veedems Thanks for sharing. What type of storage do you use for the static content? An S3-compatible object storage?

peter,
@peter@area51.social avatar

@lenzgr @veedems for area51.media it's linode's own S3 storage option, but I do have it fronted by an apache instance so I can move it if needed.

That said linode for S3 is cheaper than Amazon.

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