3D demo rendering of various sizes and shapes of palm trees on a simple polygon island.

– Procedural Palm Tree Generator (Gumroad) by @waimus

Ten Years Of Mastodon#

The Mastodon project celebrated its 10th anniversary on March 16th.

Mastodon v4.5.8 was released addressing some security issues as well as other mostly behind the scenes fixes.

DNS Issues#

I’ve switched from using our registrar (CanSpace) provided DNS servers to easyDNS in order to resolve the DNS resolution issues that started cropping up more frequently in mid March.

Things have been looking pretty stable since the change over, though this does incur a small addional cost each month.

Costs and Donations#

Cost spreadsheet, text follows.

Expand Costs Table
peoplemaking.games March 2026 0.73
CAD USD
Main Server 12-32GB-512GB -$50 -$36
Media (OVH) 193 GB -$8 -$6
Media (Wasabi) 48 GB -$11 -$8
Backups 81 GB -$1 -$1
Domain Name $37/yr -$3 -$2
DNS $30/yr -$3 -$2
Email -$5 -$4
Patreon Donations $150 $108
Patreon Fees -$26 -$19
Monthly Totals
Previous Balance $426 $306
Total Expenses -$81 -$58
Net Donations $124 $89
Balance $469 $337

Thank you to everyone that has donated through Patreon. There’s no obligation that you donate in order to use the server, but it is most appreciated!

– Brook