I am always self conscious about my long winded replies because sometimes even I wouldn’t wanna read a post that long.

No need to be self-conscious - that’s a concise account of a complicated issue, which is going to go long. Long posts become an issue when they are rambling and unfocused.

Our server is the same one feddit.uk use (a hetzner auction server)

This is the route I’d recommend as you get superb specs for not much more than you’d be paying through the normal hosting, which, itself, is already very reasonable.

This has been our experience at feddit.uk. Well done to everyone over there. 👍

Worth also noting that:

• We are currently only using about 1/4 of the resources, so people could trim the cost further (although being over specced helps a lot when there are spikes in activity and it will mean we don’t have to upgrade any time soon).
• Our hosting costs are more that fully covered by around 20 people donating and that should scale with growth (although possibly not in a truly linear way). We also have a decent “warchest” which should see us through most temporary problems.

One reason we break the finances down is because we are a medium-sized instance and we want to demonstrate that it is perfectly possible to run one supported by donations.

If anyone has any questions they are welcome to message me or they can drop it into the monthly financial report (the new one will be next week).

Your call. I’ll keep an eye out for progress.

You and me to start, advertise for more. Should be fine. It is a niche meme community.

I really shouldn’t and meme communities can be a bit hectic but it is a bit niche so should be manageable and, having thought about it, I think it would work. So, yeah, do it!

That’s enough for me.

Here and here. And that broken context link.

It’s basically beans all the way down.

There are Fediverse blog platforms but, as this is about Tumblr, what about a Fediverse tumbleblog? You’ve got:

• Wafrn
• Loforo: “Another surprise is that Loforo is the second most active ActivityPub blog platform in the Fediverse, behind only WordPress.”
• Goblin - mentioned in the previous article. It’s a FireFish fork from a former Tumblr employee.

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At this point you might as well start the community. Stick a post up asking for other Mods to help out.

Do you though?

There were beans, lots of beans.