We are currently very busy restructuring and consolidating our hosting service,
we are unlikely to accept new applications at the moment.
See you in a few months maybe!
When you can't host it yourself
Hosting your own social media can be liberating but also painstaking and costly. With the Fedi Monster we share expenses, servers, skills, and you can enjoy your instance that we keep running smoothly. The monster's core idea is to enable you to carve a space for yourselves in a complex and vast network; without relying on a predatory corporation.
We offer many options and a very flexible service, trying to strike a balance in community customization and security and cost for all of us. Contact us if you have specific needs, and we'll see what we can do.
Who and What we are
The Fedi Monster is a collective of fediverse instances, server caretakers, and other workers, united to provide a reliable, affordable, and ethical mutualized hosting to many kinds of online communities who might otherwise struggle.
Our services are pay-what-you-want, ensuring your instance won't be cut off for a payment failure and greatly simplifying crowdfunding options, because we understand online communities are more than a hosting bill.
We will not host instances and communities that promote or support capitalism, fascism, classism, imperialism, war and militarism, nazism, white supremacy, religious supremacism, police states, are directly affiliated with states, or more at our discretion. and the monster's pronouns are it/them.
Options & Pricing
These are pricing recommendations based on what it costs us. You're welcome to pay more if you can, or less if you have to.
Mastodon is free microblogging platform, federating through ActivityPub.
| Plan | Personal | Small | Medium | Large | More |
| Cost | 9€/month | 19€/month | 29€/month | 39€/month | Ask us! |
| Accounts | 10 | 500 or 100 active |
4000 or 250 active |
8000 or 500 active |
∞ |
| Media storage | 100GB | 300GB | 500GB | 1TB | ∞ |
Pixelfed is free photo sharing platform, federating through ActivityPub.
It is still under development and has known issues, especially with PostgreSQL; we might discontinue support in the future.
| Plan | Personal | Premium | Community | More |
| Cost | 7€/month | 19€/month | 39€/month | Ask us! |
| Accounts | 10 | 100 | 500 | ∞ |
| Media storage | 100GB | 500GB | 1TB | ∞ |
With daily backups, reasonable processing power and flexible limits, a flat rate and no hidden costs.
GoToSocial
GoToSocial is lightweight microblogging software, federating through ActivityPub,
and compatible with the Mastodon API.
It is a young project still experimental and lacking many features one could expect.
Make sure you know what you're in for! (or what you won't find yet)
| Plan | Personal |
| Cost | 5€/month |
| Accounts | 50 |
| Media storage | 50GB |
With daily backups, reasonable processing power and flexible limits, a flat rate and no hidden costs.
Host your own instance easily
Sign upOr send us an email at hello@fedi.monster
If you're a non-profit, or aim to represent a marginalized community, or personally can't afford it, we might offer a discount, free service, or adapt to the donations you get.
About the Fediverse Monster
Formerly known as 'MaaStodon', it has been operating since 2017 for a few internet communities to improve
their hosting conditions and make this process cheaper and easier.
It even used to host mastodon.social before it was migrated to its own dedicated infrastructure.
In 2022, it was re-built as the Fedi Monster,
an anarcho-communist collective dedicated to maintaining the same excellent service with
an alternative funding model, using its existing scale and stability to aim for a fully crowdfunded service.
It is organized against profit, meaning that all income will be used to pay expenses, fund workers, and finally excess will be redistributed charitably. It firmly promises you that it will never sell your data to a third party; keep you locked in a subscription; or give power to outside investors.
Our finances are transparently managed though OpenCollective where our instance administrators, all their members, and donators interested in funding a middle ground between corporate hosting and self-hosting can contribute.
