it would be cool to run a mastodon instance on a raspberry pi
@joonian I wonder how many users you could reasonably support.
@joonian Sell Raspberry Pi units with Mastodon already installed for use by families/organizations. Current install process is too complicated. Small market though, esp after established players get bigger.
@msittig ya totally niche. so heres a q -- what's the incentive for a big player to host a mastodon instance for, say, 100s of thousands of users? what do they get out of it?
@joonian my best guess, they'd probably just copy Twitter -- advertising, sponsorships, cooperation with media orgs -- to stay viable as costs grow. And for small orgs, Slack or Discord might be a better fit. So... nothing new, really?
@msittig unless each instance organically reaches a limit of ~40,50k users or something and can live selling ancillary services or donations?
@msittig i mean, how are irc servers funded?
@joonian good question, not sure.
@joonian The SDCard would die in a week or lees ;-)