I've had a lot of people ask how BlueSky compares to Mastodon and the Fediverse. I've tried to make the answer as simple and easy to understand as possible:
The Fediverse is designed to give ordinary people control of the network. All of its traffic flows directly from one cheap-to-run server to another.
@FediTips Honestly, the lowest cost for a master. Don't instance. I would say it would be about $70 plus 12 or so a month to keep the D. N. S registered. $60 for raspberry Pi $10 for the needed storage to add to the pi 12 a month for domain registration can we get this Lower?
If you use a managed hosting service you can do it for a few dollars a month including someone doing all the technical stuff for you: