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Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed [Opinion]
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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I guess the first thing all people needed to do is self-hosting (Yunohost, Nextbox, or the like), and the second thing is paying for Open Source software they use (if they can pay, as digital communication should be free very much like the commons -fresh air, drinking water- but those who can should pay imo.)
Self-hosting is probably more affordable to do when ran out of your own home. I run my lemmy and mastodon servers out of my home on 16GB of RAM and 300MB of storage space. This would cost a small fortune to pay a cloud hosting provider for.
If you mean cloud as in EC2 or it's ilk, probably. But in a case where scalability isn't as much of a concern, an appropriately spec'd server can be quite affordable on KimSufi/SYS (maybe 30/month?)
My server in my home costs me a lot less than 30/month to operate. Since this is a hobby for me I don't assign a monetary value to the time I spend working on it. I built the server with second hand components that I got at a swap meet for less than 700 dollars. Now knock on wood things have been running smoothly and I do a lot with this server. It doesn't just power Lemmy and Mastodon, but it also does my Jellyfin and NAS. It's probably overspec'd for my needs but that means I can use it for a long while.