Hetzner, which many instances rely on, just announced a major across the board price hike. A 30% increase isn’t minor.
For larger companies it’s a budget line. For small Mastodon instances, it’s the line between sustainable and underwater.
When servers jump from €49.99 to €64.99 and storage rises too, admins feel it first. Many already subsidize costs.
Some will downsize. Some may shut down.
Decentralization still runs on invoices.
Support your instances.
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mainely.social/ap/users/116125506849414655/statuses/116131022790526725 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)
RE: https://mainely.social/@jeff/116131022790526725
The Fediverse easily cost 5x more than it should... in year of our lord
Having 10,000 instances with 10,000 storage mirrors (local and S3) alone is a problem that should have been solved many moons ago.
Shlee fucked around and