@stux Yeah rent is insane right now. A studio is running me ~$1750 a month in just rent. After utilities its roughly $2000. Then you have renters insurance and some other stuff, so the total cost is really around $2050 a month.
And I don't live in one of the big cities.. that's what it costs in a "medium" sized city.
@stux Unless universal basic income rolls out or the federal government does something drastic to lower the cost of living I do agree with you on this.
I dont know why you're specifically saying /big/ house when the majority of young americans cant even afford a small house and are living with their parents or renting apartments. And if they are renting apartments most of their money goes towards that, because rent is sky high right now.
@eblu@Cybird For example, lets say you have 400TB of videos. You also need another 400TB to back those videos up (or just pray your raid array doesn't fail). So that's 800TB of storage.
Well, a 300TB storage server at hetzner (cheapest host I'm aware of) runs in the realm of $400 a month. But that's only around 250TB usable with a raidz2. So your total costs for 800TB would be $1200 a month just for storage + backups.
@eblu@Cybird Yep! There is a certain growth period peertube instances hit where they can no longer sustain themselves and donations (regardless of what people think) will not be enough to continue growing.
Find an instance you like. Just be aware peertube instances tend to come and go like the wind.
If you want an instance that will not vanish on you then you will need to run your own and pay for all of the costs associated with doing that.
The only peertube instance I'm aware of that has stuck around is diode.zone and they deleted most of their content due to the costs involved. It's a shell of what it used to be.
@Alex@BeAware I've been off the fediverse for months and came back and one of the first things I see is wedistribute on #fediblock (again).
This is great advertising material for them, because they are getting their name well known in the fediverse. I dont know how many instances are actively blocking them, though.
