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@whynothugo@fosstodon.org @ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social Almost every time that I hear that someone runs their own instance, they mention how resource-demanding it isIt is true #Mastodon is very resource intensive, and it scales poorly to boot. This is why all those large instances require quite a bit in donations to keep going. Smaller instances (especially those not running Mastodon) are much cheaper to operate. If you're under 10 users, you can likely just host it on a raspi in your home without too much worries.Running an instance for others is an even bigger commitmentThere's several companies doing this, I'm sure.there's no easy way to delegate a domain to an existing instanceI'm not sure if this is desired either, if someone hosts an instance for you, you should simply have a subdomain point to their servers, much like with any other hosted web application.All this leads to making the most convenient thingThen being on the Fediverse is already a contradiction, no? I keep hearing how difficult the Fediverse is to use and understand, and how hard it is to host an instance. #Twitter still exists, even if they're trying to rebrand in the dumbest way possible, but it's super duper easy and you won't have to think about anything for more than half a second!