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+title: "Perspectives on the Fediverse"
+linkTitle: "Perspectives"
+weight: 100
+description: >-
+     Sharing Hachyderm's lessons to help make the Fediverse the best it can be.
+---
+
+## Managed Service Providers
+
+Hachyderm.io has an impressive team of administrator-operator-moderators keeping it up and running. Not every community is so lucky, and less-technical communities are systematically less lucky. For less-technical communities that want to join the Fediverse on their own terms, managed hosts are a great option to consider.
+
+Hachyderm is aware of the following MSPs (Inclusion ≠ endorsement, alphabetical by name):
+
+ * [https://elest.io/open-source/mastodon](Elestio)
+ * [https://masto.host/](mastohost) (closed to new registrations as of 12/7/2022)
+ * [https://www.opalstack.com/blog/2022/11/29/mastodon-hosting-on-opalstack-is-here/](Opalstack)
+ * [https://federation.spacebear.ee/](Spacebear federation)
+ * [https://toot.io/mastodon_hosting.html](toot.io)
+
+
+ ## Non-Technical Concerns
+
+ Instance administrators should consider:
+
+  * How to raise funds to cover hosting costs
+  * What kind formal legal entity to form for the site
+  * How to handle DMCA requests (in the USA)
+  * What national and sub-national jurisdictions apply to their instance
+  * How to manage the liabilty if the instance is used for illegal activities
+  * How to make decisions as a community