@homegrown it's not that cheap though. I run a niche instance for Esperanto speakers through managed hosting, and as the user base grew, so did the costs. Nowadays it's about 40€ a month.

@homegrown Mastodon is switching to location based hosting.

If people starting hosting from the own dsl, then Mastodon could end up being a civic infrastructure.

Important is how to create a DMZ behind a modem.

Not sure how it works in the U.S. in the E.U. you often get one. And then you can also buy one yourself.

Probably a recommendation combo of router and small server setup could end up creating a civic infrastructure.

#mastodon #us #democracy #eff #technology #resist

@homegrown Can I move my existing account? I selfhost a Matrix server already but I though hosting your own Mastodon server had significant downsides in terms of visibility of posts and replies