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The Mastodon instance sfba.social publishes their financials. They have about 30k total users and costs are about $1,000 USD per month. Donations cover this amount and the extra is saved.
https://hub.sfba.social/2023/04/15/transparency-report-march-2023/
$1kpm for 30k users? Man, Mastodon software is not optimised well...
oops - Users is currently 38k.
What are costs for other server types?
$1k per month for 30k users is $0.03 per user. Usually when companies talk about price per user, they talk per 1,000 users or even per 100k users. 30k users should be totally fine on a bloody Raspberry Pi, that's not a load for proper server software.