Don't worry it will be "rent our ram in the cloud for a monthly payment, now that we have thousands of datacenters"
erm, to interact with the fediverse? and to have a place on my website for people to see what I'm up to?
I run Mastodon in single user mode (only myself) and lemmy with registrations disabled. Also don't use image proxy-ing with pictrs on lemmy if u concerned about illegal images
There is no barrier for entry, you pay something like 30$ a year to Distrokid and you can upload whatever. I know a dude who makes a track a day of some sort of trance music and it's just the same track with little to no variations and he uploads it practically unmixed and unmastered. I also know someone who uploads Sumo generated AI dance music every other day but he uses some AI friendly distributor not distrokid. It is insane
tab hoarder like me needs 64GB, got it when was cheap