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@nikclayton@mastodon.social @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org There's a lesson here, but I don't think you see the same one.

If your server costs were 500 bucks, you were hosting an instance that's too large. The reason the impact is high, is because they were too large of an instance. No instance should have more than 200 active users. If they kept it small, the cost would've been negligible, and any issues that wouldve prevented them from continuing the service would have had a minor impact on the Fediverse as a whole.

The lesson is to stick to small instances, and have a huge amount of it. Don't try to be a megaserver, that's how it becomes unsustainable.