i generally don't mind project to spend money on services but i would say hosting mastodon doe not scale very well. if our instance gets popular and we get lots of users it grows linearly with user base. Having 2000 users cost ~100dolars per month and 2000 users is not even that many inkscape pov (with install base of 4 mil users). So we are eather planing for this not to be that popular = i would question why we are investing time and energy in to it . Or we are planning to be popular nad pay few k per year for hosting social media platform
On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 at 22:17, René de Hesselle dehesselle@icloud.com wrote:
f) Choose a different hosting provider. (Sorry I don't have the time to research this topic.)
I've read the TOS of masto.host and I don't like them.
- "currently Masto.host is still a work in progress"
- "hosting platform is not redundant / no fallbacks"
- "I am pushing manual changes in production and will make mistakes"
- "this is a single-person project, and there is only so much I can do"
I'm thankful for the honesty and kudos for getting this project so far, but this reads more like someone's pet project (with a bus factor of 1 - granted, not our bus) than a professional service. I would not buy this with my own money so I cannot vote for spending Inkscape's.
René
Am 04.07.2025 um 18:26 schrieb Ted Gould ted@gould.cx:
Background
Inkscape has had it's account on Mastodon.art. Because of various
moderation decisions there and elsewhere in the Fediverse having an account there has been more work, and has less reach than we'd like. Instead of choosing another server that may end up in the situation the proposal here is to create one using the the Inkscape.org domain and could host our news feeds. This would hopefully allow us to steer clear of politics in the Fediverse and provide an authoritative account at our domain.
To do this we are suggesting using masto.host, a popular Mastodon
hosting service that is used by a large number of services and is located in the EU. We reached out to the maintainer and he said with the number of followers and the number of servers we connect to, we would probably need the $20/mo option. We can adjust that in the future based on our usage, but this proposal goes with that recommendation.
Assuming this proposal is approved the next steps would be to get SFC
legal to review the terms of service from masto.host and ensure they are okay. Then have SFC setup the admin account and create the accounts that Vectors requests (or other teams?) for posting. Then we'll migrate the current Inkscape account to the new setup.
Votes
a) Approve SFC to setup a recurring payment to Masto.host for up to
$25/mo for the purpose of Mastodon hosting on the Inkscape.org domain
b) Approve hosting on masto.host but at the $_/mo level c) Approve switching to hosting on our own domain but think that we
should maintain the Mastodon instance
d) We should instead move our account to: _________ e) We should keep our Mastodon account where it is f) Something else: __________
Timeline
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