fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6) I said a server but that's basically any machine you have laying around, since with running p2p the cost of scaling network doesn't scale with the number of nodes, the cost of running a node is pretty low. I'm sure if somebody spends a weekend on it we would get a fully running Bitsocial node on Android that hosts a community. You could probably host thousands of communities on a raspberry pi easily.
Running communities is free in the economical sense, in the same way seeding a bittorrent file is "free" because there's no DNS to be bought, and u basically have to only leave the app running in the background
Rinse - Bitsocial
npub1ru…zvhny
2026-05-14 11:23:37 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…52p8
Author Public Key
npub1rufapk4ust6fgraf3n2nvlq5c67m0vk5yy270s8myflh0e786e4sqzvhnyPublished at
2026-05-14 11:23:37 UTCEvent JSON
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