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Local Hosting Co-Op by lovestha, 8 March 2025:
Whether a formal one or not, formal co-ops can be expensive to set up, people helping each other is a nice way to do things. Running a mail and file server for yourself, or for 50 people is a lot less than 50x the work. It isn’t even 50x the infrastructure costs. A fediverse server may buck this trend, as moderation work probably advances faster than linearly with user count. Tensions between local and remote users scales linearly, while tensions between local users scales more like n^2 (at small values of n) as there are more local interpersonal dynamics that can spawn drama. Those are in contrast to a single user instance where essentially all of those dramas are 0.
So a couple of IT adepts doing the IT side of things, a few willing tributes to moderate the fediverse server, and you have a co-op that could see to the prime Internet service needs of a small community.
Another great advantage to this approach is that there's more redundancy with three "IT adepts" running things (than there is with solo self-hosting).
Reminds me of how we used to do co-operista.com, c.2006.
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