On the Fireside Fedi interview with Jerry ( the admin of Infosec.Exchange Mastodon instance ) a scary truth was suddenly revealed ( on 34:11 ): Just to keep the instance up and running he needs to spend up to $5000 a month, pretty much out of his pocket. Donations to the instance barely cover any of that. And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.
  • rumimevlevi@lemmings.worldEnglish
    91·
    3 days ago

    You can’t ask people to join small servers that have the biggest risk of shutting down without creating migration toola thst migrate all the content along the likes and comments

    • rglullisAEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Size by itself is not the main predictor of risk. My instance is the only one on the Lemmy/kbin/Piefed side of the Fediverse that is exclusive for paying subscribers. It has never had more than 10 active users. This week it is celebrating its second anniversary - coincidentally I set it up on the same day as lemm.ee - and it has outlived a whole lot of instances.

      • rumimevlevi@lemmings.worldEnglish
        41·
        3 days ago

        I don’t know how this dismise my point. Small instances dies all the time. I am more preoccupied by death of instances on oixelfed though

        • rglullisAEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Small instances dies all the time

          Small hobbyist instances die all the time. Just like the medium ones and the large ones.

              • rumimevlevi@lemmings.worldEnglish
                31·
                3 days ago

                My point still stand. People won’t go to small instances that have change of shutting down thr most. Like i said in my very first comment we need better migration tools to encourage people to join small instances

                • rglullisAEnglish
                  31·
                  3 days ago

                  There will always be “First we need this, then we will start supporting it” excuse. If you think better migration tools are needed, support the developers so that they can make it happen.

                  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
                    21·
                    3 days ago

                    If the devs care about that part of the software (or any dev who’s got the time and interest since it’s open-source), they would be working on it. They’ve signalled to users that they don’t care. Let those who care do it. And if no one cares, then it doesn’t need to be done.