shnizmuffin

I’d probably put the cutoff at less than a tenth that amount.

Not if you want federation.

The answer is probably GoToSocial, which suggests that it can run on 512MB.

I think people would react poorly if server donations went to personal expenses before server expenses.

The distinction is an illusion. If a person can’t afford to live, and a part of their life is running a server, who gives a fuck which dollar goes where?

(Other than all the dipshits who offer 0 and demand anything more than nothing.)

Rent comes before server. An outage is a wonderful motivator, turn that shit off.

give updates to your customers when things go wrong!

No, never, you can’t make me.

You’re free to spin up your own instance where you can make direct threats and actionable calls to violence.

Oh, those are subreddits. Yeah, you’re probably not wrong.