With bluesky (mostly) going down for a few hours today, I got to wondering about how decentralized the fediverse really is in terms of where its servers are hosted. I grabbed a server list from fedidb, with network information coming from ipinfo.io .
These stats are by the number of *servers* not the number of *users* (maybe I'll run those stats later).
fedidb currently tracks 2,650 servers of various types (Mastodon, pixelfed, lemmy, misskey, peertube, etc)
The fediverse is most vulnerable to disruptions at CloudFlare: 24% of Fediverse servers are behind it. Also note that this means that I don't have real data on where this 24% are located or hosted, since CloudFlare obscures this by design.
Beyond CloudFlare, the fediverse is not too concentrated on any one network. The most popular host, Hertzner, only hosts 14% of fediverse servers, and it falls off fast from there.
Here are the top networks where fediverse servers are hosted:
504 Cloudflare, Inc. 356 Hetzner Online GmbH 130 DigitalOcean, LLC 114 OVH SAS 56 netcup GmbH 55 Amazon.com, Inc. 55 Akamai Connected Cloud 36 Contabo GmbH 33 SAKURA Internet Inc. 32 The Constant Company, LLC 31 Xserver Inc. 28 SCALEWAY S.A.S. 24 Google LLC 23 Oracle Corporation 16 GMO Internet Group, Inc. 14 IONOS SE 14 FranTech Solutions 11 Hostinger International Limited 10 Nubes, LLC
Half of fediverse servers are on networks that host 50 or fewer servers - that's pretty good for resiliency.
There is even more diversity when it comes to BGP prefixes, which is good for resiliency: for example, the cloud providers that have multiple availability zones will generally have them on different prefixes, so this gets closer to giving us a picture of the specific bits of infrastructure the fediverse relies on.
75% of fediverse servers are behind BGP prefixes that host 10 or fewer servers, meaning that the fediverse is *very* resilient to large network outages.
Top countries where fediverse servers are hosted:
871 United States 439 Germany 156 France 148 Japan 75 Finland 57 Canada 49 Netherlands 38 United Kingdom 26 Switzerland 26 South Korea 21 Spain 19 Sweden 18 Austria 17 Australia 15 Russia 12 Czech Republic 10 Singapore 10 Italy
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One thing that's interesting to me in this data is that there is actually *much* more consolidation on a few cloud providers in Europe than there is in the US. This is actually somewhat concerning. 81% of fediverse servers in Germany are at Hetzner, 73% of the servers in France are on OVH. By comparison, the most popular American provider, Digital Ocean, hosts only 14% of servers in the US. I don't know how representative this is of cloud usage overall (eg. Digital Ocean is definitely not the top cloud in the US) but it does certainly suggest much more centralization in Europe as compared to the US.
That is even more cocerning given the fact that Hetzner, for example, can block your account without any explanations (google for a Reddit thread about it, it's quite at the top of search results).
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As a reminder to my academic friends. If you are doing research that involves modifying a compiler - perhaps to add a security mitigation or to test an optimization or some other interesting behavior - and you want to run a real world benchmark or test suite: we can help you run it on Firefox.
We can get you set up with our CI so it's easy and efficient to iterate on your patches and run it through the whole gamut.
If you want a compelling story in your paper, showing results on what is probably the second most complicated piece of software in use ought to do it.
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They also recently started selling these: Handmade Foldable Tote Bag & Carrying Pouch. There are multiple patterns, I've personally been rocking the Grogu/Baby Yoda one, but there are mushrooms, cats in multiple colors, and more. Impossibly cute, and it folds up into this tiny little pouch with a button for securing. All sowed by hand, directly outside my bedroom door. etsy.com/listing/4295110843/ha…
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synapse seemingly has the pro in terms of support for tools such as synapse admin: github.com/Awesome-Technologie… and the ability to use oauth and handle user management using solutions such as authentik.
while conduit seems to be more resource efficient and better in terms of speed?
synapse is the original server and most mature, written by the team who created Matrix and generally just works… but it isn’t the most efficient. conduit is much newer and experimental, likely faster but less stable. up to you!
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