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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 04:17:59 JST Eugen Rochko

   • かき@GNUsocialJP

   Truth Social costing $320k per month to host is wild, and hilarious. I’m curious to see the breakdown of how that’s possible.

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     phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 04:21:54 JST phryk 🏴

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     @Gargron Simple, two bill items:

     1: Hosting, $100
     2: Embezzlement: $319900

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 05:09:56 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • halcy​:icosahedron:

     @halcy I don't have analytics. I can estimate 352k unique visitors per day based on short-lived logs.

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     halcy​:icosahedron: (halcy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 05:09:58 JST halcy​:icosahedron:

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     @Gargron do you know how many monthly visitors and visits mastosoc serves, roughly? Just for comparison?

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 05:56:24 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • jaz :twt: :wales_flag:

     @jaz I wish somebody paid me 750k salary ?

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     jaz :twt: :wales_flag: (jaz@toot.wales)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 05:56:27 JST jaz :twt: :wales_flag:

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     @Gargron I mean how else can they pay Nunes 750k salary?

     https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/a-glimpse-at-devin-nunes-comp-as-ceo-of-trumps-truth-social

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     jaz :twt: :wales_flag: (jaz@toot.wales)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 05:56:29 JST jaz :twt: :wales_flag:

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     @Gargron I've paid $25-30k / month for far smaller setups. If you offload everything including managed services, you can get up there pretty quick, especially with 4M users. They also have Rumble to pay, not sure if they're paying that bill.

     Far as I can tell neither Save America nor TMTG have any ownership in RightForge nor Rumble.

     Maybe he's funneling money from the $100M PAC that has no reason to exist other than to continue soaking money from retired bigots.

     https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/save-america/C00762591/expenditures/2022

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     tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪 (tripleman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 06:27:55 JST tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪

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     @Gargron It's just layers and layers of grift, all the way down to the stinky core.

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     Deadly Headshot (dheadshot@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 07:08:03 JST Deadly Headshot

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     @Gargron
     Corruption, presumably...

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     Thomas "Vax/Boost/Mask" Fuchs (thomasfuchs@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 07:11:12 JST Thomas "Vax/Boost/Mask" Fuchs

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     @Gargron basic tax fraud 1x1: overbill another company (that’s friends with yours), write off “losses” that you don’t have to pay in taxes when they don’t pay

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 10:04:41 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Tim Chambers
     • かき@GNUsocialJP

     @tchambers https://mobile.twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1562958530381983747

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 10:04:42 JST Tim Chambers

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     @Gargron That's crazy. Was that number reported publicly?

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     Athena Vixen (athenavixen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 13:07:19 JST Athena Vixen

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     @Gargron inflation, tech parts, staff costs, it all adds up

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     Athena Vixen (athenavixen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 13:09:08 JST Athena Vixen

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     • jaz :twt: :wales_flag:

     @Gargron @jaz then income taxes

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     3dcandy (3dcandy@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 17:37:54 JST 3dcandy

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     @Gargron combination of their policies and the idiots who "run" it

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 20:48:23 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Abid

     @abid Yes

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     Abid (abid@abid.cc)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 20:48:36 JST Abid

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     @Gargron Is it really #mastodon used this way? https://mobile.twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1562972989695545346