USA prolly gonna need a lot more fediverse servers if trump takes back the oval office so happy to help show folks how easy it is to run an instance in the meantime. Just msg me.
You can host a server in the EU so even if despotism prevails here in November, you and your members can benefit from the fundamental data rights, etc. enshrined in the EU Charter as we potentially confront absolute tyranny here in the USA.
We run federate.social on masto.host which exists as machines in France and so subject to the GDPR and our members consume $99/month of data services and donate accordingly. So if you can get 100 people to donate $1/mo avg you too can run a trump resistant social server.
@profcarroll And for the brave who have DYI inclinations, hosting a personal or friends and family instance **at home** is easy and inexpensive —mine has run with no incidents since late 2022.
Just check the massive and massively friendly folks and posts around the #SelfHosted hashtag.
@tetrislife @profcarroll Do yourself indeed 🫠