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It is kinda wierd that gotosocial is more expensive than cheapest mastodon tier, considering it is computationally lighter (atleast that is what it's intended goal was iirc). Maybe they can experiment around reducing the system usage for it (maybe cut in half).
For me personally - I am interested, but cost is high for me. if I could do something like 20-30$ for full year (so 2-2.5$ bucks a month), that would be great. I know that is a lot less, but for plebs like me - do not even get me a domain name (and save a 1-12 bucks a year), just a subdomain works (for example user.fedihost.co or something), just a gotosocial instance (maybe 0.5 to 1 gig ram or at most 2 gigs. 1 shared virtual cpu, 5 gibs storage, and even a cdn is not required). I think that would be close to bare minimum system usable, and also within reach for most people (i live in a third world country, even 5 bucks is like a days work for more than half the nation.)
@sga we discussed it on our podcast a while ago.
https://video.fedihost.co/w/brXH3dQNJVAyjpixC8n5an
It’s an interesting quirk of the way that it interacted with metered S3 storage being expensive.
we made some recent changes to our S3 storage driver in v0.20.2, please do let us know how you get on with it and if there's anything more we can do to help!