Hey, I wanted to first off say welcome to new followers and people who have shared content from this masto instance!
I think talking about and sharing urgent breaking news is a critical task to make and keep the Fediverse a vibrant place where important conversations happen. This is a critical function that will enable more and more people to make the jump off of corporate owned websites.
If you also think this is important please consider supporting this instance.
In the last week alone our instance has moved nearly half a terabyte of traffic per day.
When I first setup this instance I was stably housed and had an awesome internet connection so the primary costs were power and admin time. At that time it only cost about $50/mo to host.
However since that time life circumstances have made me housing insecure and forced our instance to be run in the cloud, increasing our costs to $150 - $200 / mo
