Thanks!

@mastodonmigration

@wizard thanks, very good point. I don't think they're planning on having open registrations but I"ll stress the importance of that!

thanks. Good point on not having open registration, I don't think they were planning on doing that but I'll stress the importance!

My initial response was that if they don't have an experienced sysadmin they'll almost certainly want to use a hosting service. That said I'm not sure about the costs of going that route if their posts get wide visibility -- I remember Marco Rogers needing a $39/month plan for a single-user instance -- but it still might be worth doing.

@FediTips

Thanks again. Yeah, completely agree about the importance of getting a team in place on moderation side, and great description of what to think about up front. And these are great suggestions even for a much smaller instance. If I do a post about this, is it okay if I quote you?

@EverydayMoggie

@risottobias good suggestions, thanks!

Thanks very much @ConnyDuck, great info!

@andypiper

Agreed. My initial response was that if they don't have an experienced sysadmin they'll almost certainly want to use a hosting service. On the number of users, they realize that a smaller instance is easier, but aren't sure at what point it starts to get significantly more difficult and how much more difficult it gets.

@EverydayMoggie @andypiper

@andypiper (or anybody else ...)

Somebody working with a non-profit that is considering starting up a Mastodon instance to use as part of an activism campaign asked me for a rough estimate of how time consuming it is to administer a mastodon instance. Good question! Is there a good wrteeup of this I can point them to?

#MastoAdmin