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    TIL that Twitter spends 3 million usd per day on their infrastructure. 90 million per month, or a billion per year. Imagine how many fediverse servers that could pay for.

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      probably about the same amount? i’d imagine their operations are rather efficient…

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        “Cloud” hosting can be very expensive, look at the prices for aws. And all just for a single instance.

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          pretty sure twitter isn’t paying the standard rates, but even if they were, most fediverse instances are also hosted on cloud services…