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.
  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    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

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        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

              • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
                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.

                  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
                    2·
                    3 days ago

                    This is absurd and shows some ridiculous entitlement.

                    Software development is not just a drive-thru restaurant where people just make an order with their preferred menu, and 30 seconds later it is handed it out to you. Developers have to balance a bunch of priorities, deal with bugs, make sure that new features being added can be maintained in the future adequately. It’s also not easy for anyone to just drop by and submit a huge piece of functionality without making sure things works as expected. And they are doing this all while getting basically no money in donations (~3000€/month, for 3 developers is less than minimum wage for pretty much all of Northern Europe).

                    If you think it’s just a matter of “they don’t care”, go ahead and write the code yourself.