It's been a while since the last blog post.
There hasn't been too much news for most instances, so that's good.
toot.community
In december, we did a migration of toot.community which ran on a complicated, expensive (but very nice) tech stack, to a simpler and cheaper solution. The migration went fine. This will save us at least 200,– each month.
friendica.world
We also installed friendica.world in September. In January 2025, when Zuckerberg made some worrying announcements about their Meta platforms, many new signups came to our Friendica server. At the time of writing, the instance has around 2500 active users.
This brings some challenges on getting the instance stable. There are no other large Friendica instances so tuning it is a bit trial-and-error, but we're getting there. We're planning to see if we can split the components to separate servers so scaling is easier.
Finances
I won'
... Show more...It's been a while since the last blog post.
There hasn't been too much news for most instances, so that's good.
toot.community
In december, we did a migration of toot.community which ran on a complicated, expensive (but very nice) tech stack, to a simpler and cheaper solution. The migration went fine. This will save us at least 200,– each month.
friendica.world
We also installed friendica.world in September. In January 2025, when Zuckerberg made some worrying announcements about their Meta platforms, many new signups came to our Friendica server. At the time of writing, the instance has around 2500 active users.
This brings some challenges on getting the instance stable. There are no other large Friendica instances so tuning it is a bit trial-and-error, but we're getting there. We're planning to see if we can split the components to separate servers so scaling is easier.
Finances
I won't bother you with all the details, but the running costs for all our instances were between 2000 and 2300 EUR every month from September to January, and I think they might be down to 1900 in February.
The donations are also going down, from around 2300 in September to just under 2000 in January. Still just enough to cover spendings, but we might consider advertising the donation platforms, maybe monthly if donations start falling short.
Any questions or remarks can be sent to @ruud@mastodon.world
A worldwide Mastodon instance from The Netherlands. Run by digital enthusiasts, inviting everyone, everywhere to join us in the #fediverse.
Mastodon hosted on toot.community
Jari Nikkinen
in reply to Daniel Supernault • • •Thor A. Hopland
in reply to Jari Nikkinen • • •@Jarska96 it's either that, or as a company - which could be seen as a conflict of interest.
With an organization he can apply for funds and operate it in a free libre way.
With a company he'd probably have to sell you something.
He probably still could, but as long as the core of Pixelfed is maintained (because all software needs maintenance), we can more safely trust that the software will continue to function as expected.
allen
in reply to Daniel Supernault • • •Pixelfed Fan
in reply to Daniel Supernault • • •EloPup
in reply to Daniel Supernault • • •Great job man, great job!
Could be worthwhile to check out what @Interledger is doing and/or maybe even get in contact with them?
If they can provide some safe and secure means to donate to Pixelfed in the future I think it could interesting.
I am not associated with them, I just like what they are doing 😀.
Keep it up dansup ☺️✊🏻
Pixelfed rocks!
@Jeremiah
#pixelfed