If you’re a company hosting anything you’re a target for hackers. You can’t just set up a server and call it a day. You have to take extra precautions that Joe Schmoe doesn’t have to worry about. And it’s a continuous effort, not one and done.
Oh no the million dollar company now has to maintain a server (likely 1-2h of dev/admin time per month) next to the hundreds of other servers that they already have…
Ridiculous.
Don’t forget how quickly they shut down their Mastodon instance even though it cost them nothing.
It cost them nothing? Isn’t there some kind of hardware or software/IT/power cost for hosting?
I’m pretty sure self-hosting a single mastodon server where you’re basically the only person on it likely costs less than 50$ per month…
That’s a peanut for a million dollar company.
Firefox could probably create an account a Linux / open source focussed server or just the default mastodon server.
If you’re a company hosting anything you’re a target for hackers. You can’t just set up a server and call it a day. You have to take extra precautions that Joe Schmoe doesn’t have to worry about. And it’s a continuous effort, not one and done.
Oh no the million dollar company now has to maintain a server (likely 1-2h of dev/admin time per month) next to the hundreds of other servers that they already have…
I don’t pay anything for my Mastodon account. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯