November 2022 #theradioinstance activity and costs report.

I’ll try to post at the end of each month as to how this instance is going.

Currently I have no creator members or support. I’m open to ideas on how that could work better. Thought I had a pretty good plan but one month in and I’m not sure. More on that here: https://theradio.au/about

But the down-low is simple: I’ve got a $200 Digital Ocean credit, but if I didn’t current server costs would be $25 USD a month.

I've just made a Mastodon update to #theradioinstance - ElasticSearch is now enabled which means you can now search across this instance, and also the error message "Searching posts by their content is not enabled on this Mastodon server" no longer shows.

I have no data as to what this could mean for the server resources, and if it increases costs substantially, I'll investigate.

More #theradioinstance news on supporting and paying for this instance.

The server was started with a goal to create a place where Australian creators, podcasters, bloggers, writers, filmmakers, photographers, could create and share on their own terms - not on Twitter or Meta's terms.

Part of that is about actually investing and knowing the business model behind your social network.

No-one, creatives included, has to pay to use this instance. But if you see value in it and would like to invest into a social space where you want to be active, there are links on https://theradio.au/about to either invest as a creator or simply financially support the server.

By request (thanks for the suggestion, @molk) I've increased #theradioinstance post limit to 5000 characters.

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Looking for some help with Mastodon. Migrating to my instance doesn’t bring your follow list, and on import it doesn’t import (waited 12 hours for a list of 57). Wondering if it’s a big on #mastodon 4.02 or if it’s about S3 object cloud storage? #theradioinstance

A sarcastic and undoubtedly old friend of mine felt like "the radio" was an odd name for my Mastodon instance.

My defence is that what do words mean anyway, I already owned the domain, and I simply like the audible promotion on a video or podcast to say "follow me at josh at the radio dot a u".

Compared to "josh at aus, a, u, s, not o, z, dot social" or "josh dot withers at m, s, t, d, n, dot social".

So that's the story with the instance name. #theradioinstance