@somnilogical, I wanted to thank you for your efforts in being a Tumblr Purge News Network. I’ve found it very helpful.
i like to do lots of meta when thinking of changes. im kind of using my tumblr to pinboard possibility-space of where humans could go
im also downloading every app and signing up for every website someone mentions and poking around in them to see what theyre like
Yeah, it’s bedtime for me now but tomorrow I’ll be doing some poking around too.
And researching backup methods for all the potential sites, because fuck having a mere single copy of anything.
(If I parsed the jargon correctly, this Mastodon backup program [link] is compatible with Pleroma? *If*. I’ll test it soon, probably tomorrow.)
If you self host Mastodon you could just back up straight from the database on your server.
Even if I get a handle on how to do that on a technical level, I’d need to rent a URL for it, right?
If I decide to settle down in the Fediverse I will seriously consider self-hosting, but I’m not ready to drop money on it yet.
Renting a domain for a URL is around $10/year.
Renting the shittiest server possible is already around $60/year, and I’d be surprised if the shittiest server possible would be enough to handle Mastodon. And the effect on your electric bill of using your own computer as a server is around $200/year
There also exist free domains, but like in no universe is $10/year not a drop in the bucket compared to the overall price of hosting a server.
Pleroma boasts that one can run an instance on a Raspberry Pi [link], but again this is really not my area and I would be unsurprised to learn that this is far less impressive than they are trying to make it sound.
Probably the figures I’ve encountered over the years about domain costs were actually varying levels of package deal.
I had some further details here about cost estimates, but honestly I think they’re beside the point. There exist *some* financial costs to self-hosting, and I could tell that much even without having any experience in such matters, and that was enough to dissuade me from jumping straight into the deep end. When and if (*big* if) I decide that I am willing to pay money for a server, *then* I’ll research exactly how much it would cost me and compare that figure to the amount I am willing to pay (not to mention the amount of effort involved in determining which knowledge and skills I would even need, and then acquiring them).
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