Mastodon is great and all, but what is a sustainable model for financing the infrastructure, the management of all the instances, the risk is people, mainly volunteers, will crash under the load of growth in users, instances will dissappear etcetera, any good ideas or articles on this topic ? Where is the money 🙂 ? #mastodon #finance #money #infrastructure #sustainability
@ErikJonker
I would propose something similar to a Blockchain transactional microservice. Each device can act as a proxy cache for content and also a directory of replica sets for locality based requests. But unlike Blockchain, create quotas for number of units per region. Come to think of it, someone should make a bchain server that does this for other purposes too. 🤔 Then the only dependencies required would be nameservers.. and those can handle chonky amounts of requests super cheap. Also if data is indexed correctly you create a fidelity score for posts authenticity.
