Maybe I am misreading / misunderstanding how Mastodon works. but that is 2000 active users  on their pricing  website.
https://masto.host/pricing/
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 at 13:37, Martin Owens <doctormo@geek-2.com> wrote:
That's 60 cents a user per year, that's incredibly high for a read only
publishing service. We'd get better cost per user by physically mailing
everyone a letter once a year.

Are you sure it costs that much to be followed by that many people?

It seems very unlikely.

Martin,

On Sat, 2025-07-05 at 11:51 +0200, Adam Belis wrote:
>  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 
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