on the one hand, I like the idea of having a fun mastodon instance name (e.g. urbanists.social). On the other hand, I frankly am not in a position to trust that those of us really excited about running mastodon instances this week are gonna still care about it 6-18 months from now, which is why I just tell people to join a large instance.
This does have problems because "large instances" are facing more performance issues at the moment.
@crschmidt And it's not the way this ›federated thingy‹ is supposed to work either.
I'm with you on the 6-18 months thingy, but then I'm running my own mailserver (uu.org) for 25+ years, and a public WiFi network for 6+ years, thus I'm a bit optimistic that <at>uu.org will stay in the Fediverse for some decade as well ;-)
@wusel "most of them aren't $5/month" :) more seriously, the digitalocean droplet thing was what I was thinking of, I was just too lazy to have looked yet.
@crschmidt I C; as I have some bare metal boxes running as Hypervisors across Europe anyway, it's just another VM for me ;)
By the looks of it, Mastodon/Fediverse feels like a backward timewarp to good ol' Blogosphere ;)
@crschmidt As for the "on xyz for $5/month", what's your issue with https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/ ?