<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>masukomi</author><text>_you_ don&amp;#x27;t get managed hosting from mastodon.social the site owner does (if they used a service like this). You just get an account that someone else manages the infrastructure beneath.&lt;p&gt;This gives you your own instance, which in addition to using your own domain, means you can can set the rules of the server (what kind of speech is and isn&amp;#x27;t allowed), you can boot people you don&amp;#x27;t want. You can control who gets in. you can control what other servers are blocked (i assume that is an option in pleroma too).</text><parent_chain><item><author>packetlost</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s sort of my point. Managed hosting is exactly what I get for free from SDF (or mastodon.social), so what&amp;#x27;s the benefit?</text></item><item><author>ultimape</author><text>This appears to be a managed hosting provider offering access to a pleroma instance underneath, not a software package.</text></item><item><author>packetlost</author><text>Why would I want this over something like mastodon.social or SDF&amp;#x27;s Mastodon? $7&amp;#x2F;month seems very steep for what amounts to the ability to have a custom domain and admin responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Togethr: Own Mastodon-compatible decentralized social network instance</title><url>https://togethr.party/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jgfrgcss</author><text>A clear business model and alignment of interests, as a customer. Also no lock in since the customer owns their domain.&lt;p&gt;How is SDF funded? How can anyone be certain it will continue to be funded, if it offers a service gratis that costs the provider money to operate? Is that funding source aligned with my beliefs and interests? These are questions you don&amp;#x27;t have when you just pay for things.&lt;p&gt;Another example: I use FastMail with a custom domain. Yes, I could just use Gmail, but I don&amp;#x27;t, for the reasons listed above.</text><parent_chain><item><author>packetlost</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s sort of my point. Managed hosting is exactly what I get for free from SDF (or mastodon.social), so what&amp;#x27;s the benefit?</text></item><item><author>ultimape</author><text>This appears to be a managed hosting provider offering access to a pleroma instance underneath, not a software package.</text></item><item><author>packetlost</author><text>Why would I want this over something like mastodon.social or SDF&amp;#x27;s Mastodon? $7&amp;#x2F;month seems very steep for what amounts to the ability to have a custom domain and admin responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Togethr: Own Mastodon-compatible decentralized social network instance</title><url>https://togethr.party/</url></story>