Reddthat - Open Collective
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A link aggregator community run by it's members, for it's members

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Thankyou

We created Reddthat for the purposes of creating a community, that can be run by the community. We did not want it to be something that is moderated, administered and funded by 1 or 2 people.

In one of very first posts titled “Welcome one and all” we talked about what our short term and long term goals are.
In 7 days since starting, we have already federated with over 700 difference instances, have 24 different communities and over 250 users that have contributed over 550 comments. So I think we’ve definitely achieved our short term goals, and I thought this was going to take closer to 3 months to get these types of numbers!

We would like to first off thank everyone for being here, subscribing to our communities and calling Reddthat home!

Funding

Open Collective is a service which allows us to take donations, be completely transparent when it comes to expenses and our budget, and allows us some form of idea of how we tracking month-to-month.

Servers are not free, databases are growing, images are uploading and the servers are running smoothly.

Initial Upfront Costs (Annual):

  • 1x Domain: 15 Euro
  • 1x Server: 118.80 Aud

Plans - Images

After 7 days, we have cached 3.1GB worth of images. These are whatever has been uploaded by our wonderful users, and all the different items that have been cached from all the other fediverse servers.
Pictrs, the service that we use to host images, has the ability to use Object Storage in newer versions.
The plan for the images are to move them to Backblaze B2 storage, or wasabi storage, and take advantage of Cloudflare to create a CDN for all of our images.

Plans - Database

The database service is another story. The database has grown to 1.8GB (on the file system) in the 7 days. Some quick math, makes that 94GB in 1 year’s time. Our current host allows us to addon 100GB of SSD storage for $100/year, which is very viable and will allow us to keep costs down, while planning for our future.

Future Costs (Annual):

So what do our costs look like in the future:

  • Domain: 15 Euro
  • Server: 118.80 Aud
  • 100GB addon: $100 Aud
  • Backblaze B2 Object Storage: 60 Usd
  • Total: ~$360 Aud

That’s our goal. That is the number we need to achieve in funding to keep us going for another year.

Cheers
Tiff

PS. Thank you to our donators! Your names will forever be remembered by me:

  • Guest x3
  • Dave_r
  • MentallyExhausted
  • Stimmed