Correct me if I’m wrong, but might Chat Control be approved in EU, wouldn’t that scanning be on the client side, before encryption? That would mean it doesn’t matter where your server is. It matters where you are.

I just started a relay: https://chat.in-the.eu/

Luckily we don’t own the server, we just rent it :-)

Dankje

Thanks, Andy! I’ve upgraded our instances. Looks nice!

Yes Dieselboy rocked. Also Technical Itch, Counterstrike etc.

I will put an update in the post. Thank you!

No

https://www.djsandstorm.com/ (for those interested)

A friend of mine once created this mash-up for MTV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7XwhRhRSvo Still one of my all-time favorite tracks.

Yes! I think we might even have 500 to 1000 EUR more than we spend this month, so we can save that for next months. A lot of these are one-time donations, so I’ll have to see how much we’ll have next month, I’ll keep you updated on the blog.

The 1700/mo is for all instances we host, with around 30k active users/mo. (If every active user would pay 1 euro per year, it would cover the costs) But it can’t be compared to Reddit. Reddit has employees. Employees cost more than infra. If I would pay myself and all the volunteers for the work we put in, the cost would be at least 10 times what it is now.

https://writefreely.org/

Codeberg runs on Forgejo, which you can selfhost. (If you wanna try, let me know, I can create an account for you on https://forgejo.world/). It has (or will have) activitypub (federation).

Friendica is nice, I’d say try it (https://friendica.world/), but host it yourself if you like it. Personally I use Sharkey (https://sharkey.world/) which you can use like Mastodon, but with longer posts, and you can create pages (like this one https://ruud.social/@ruud/pages/postgresql ).

Yes GH is a good way, but I’m sure you can use $ on Patreon as well?

No for bank transfer there’s no bottom limit

Yes it will work. And this way there will be no fees.

The FHF is the foundation owning all instances (https://fedihosting.foundation/hosted/). So the costs are for running all the .world instances. The contribution to FHF is the costs for running the non-profit foundation itself.

The Patreon was setup when mastodon.world was the only instance… haven’t renamed it yet.

https://bunq.me/fhf

Payments are handled by Stripe or Paypal for both platforms so that doesn’t matter