Hello. I’m new to mastadon. I am hosting it on a vps server with 4GB RAM and about 200GB storage for 30$/month which is definitely high for my budget. Also I have to pay for my domain about an yearly 15$/year. Is there any way through which I can make some dollars with mastodon just overcome this budget, eg. Ads implementation, paid boosting of toots, or anything… Please help 😦
  • ster
    5·
    4 years ago

    Their ideas are nonsensical (adverts, paid boosting, both are practially the same thing and one of the things people come to mastodon to avoid) but there’s nothing wrong with wanting to come up with a financial model for an instance. A non-profit cooperative which charges for membership would be a good example of a way to responsibly and transparently fund an instance

    • Niquarl
      1·
      4 years ago

      A non-profit cooperative which charges for membership would be a good example of a way to responsibly and transparently fund an instance

      Doesn’t social.coop do it this way ?

      There are also some instances that paid like that capitalist.party or something.

      You’ve got PeerTube instances that limit the upload with the possibility of getting more for money.

      • ster
        2·
        4 years ago

        Yep, social.coop is an example. And paying for things once you are using them reasonably heavily is fair game, as long as all costs are made clear at the start and there are lots of alternatives, which is something decentralised platforms benefit from. This is in contrast to pay-to-win or hidden freemium costs.