[rglullis]

> I don't feel like dealing with this stuff anymore.

This will keep happening until people realize that:

- there is a significant cost to properly manage an instance

- there is a significant cost to develop sustainably the software

- there is a significant cost to deal with moderation

and that these costs can not be covered by donations from a small minority.

[johnnyanmac]

moderation aside, is the cost any different from any other site you can host on?

[rglullis]

Single-user instances, maybe not. But running a Mastodon instance for a couple of thousand people is a lot more resource intensive than running a blog or a XMPP server for the same amount of users.