George Ellenburg (he/him/his)<p>For the love of god if you're trying to convince your employer or an organization to "come over" to the <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/Fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>, do NOT under any circumstances suggest that they set up a <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/Mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/instance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#instance</a><span>!<br><br>Mastodon is the ONLY Fediverse platform that ... </span><i>by default</i> ... forces <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/server" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#server</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/admins" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#admins</a> to <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/cache" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cache</a>, <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/copy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#copy</a>, and <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/proxy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proxy</a> <b>all <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/media" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a></b> that passes through its server. This means that not only are server admins paying to host the media their users <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/upload" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#upload</a>, but they have to pay to host the media <b>everyone else on the fucking fediverse uploads as well.</b><span><br><br>Other platforms offer this feature, but </span><b>Mastodon is the only one that has this turned on by default.</b><span><br><br>This results in Mastodon server admins having to shell out thousands of dollars each month in </span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/S3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#S3</a><span> hosting costs for no reason whatsoever.<br><br>There are much better alternative instance platforms than Mastodon.</span></p>