- cross-posted to:
- activitypub@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- activitypub@programming.dev
The author examined the distribution of instances in the fediverse. Given that many instances are hidden behind CDNs like Cloudflare or Fastly, the author employed ActivityPub’s functionality to discover the actual hosting locations of servers. More than half (51%) of the fediverse is hosted within a single hosting company. The author suggests that the fediverse hosted mostly with a few major providers, deviates from its initial objectives.
Whoever wrote this blog post missed the point in the way the fediverse is decentralised.
It’s not about hosting. It’s about ownership. And that means hosting can change at any moment. Because no one company decides anything.
That’s why we really want the fediverse. Because it’s not build for late stage capitalism and monopolies.