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   Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 15:03:25 JST Rob Ricci

   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.

   The top BGP prefixes:

   55 104.21.48.0/20
   50 104.21.16.0/20
   48 104.21.64.0/20
   41 104.21.32.0/20
   41 104.21.0.0/20
   38 104.21.80.0/20
   32 172.67.128.0/20
   31 172.67.144.0/20
   28 172.67.208.0/20
   28 162.43.0.0/17
   27 104.26.0.0/20
   26 172.67.192.0/20
   26 172.67.176.0/20
   23 172.67.160.0/20
   19 116.203.0.0/16
   17 172.67.64.0/20
   17 159.69.0.0/16
   16 65.109.0.0/16
   14 88.99.0.0/16
   14 49.13.0.0/16
   13 78.46.0.0/15
   13 167.235.0.0/16
   13 138.201.0.0/16
   11 95.217.0.0/16
   11 95.216.0.0/16
   11 49.12.0.0/16
   11 135.181.0.0/16
   10 37.27.0.0/16
   10 157.90.0.0/16

   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

   And finally, a map of the locations of fediverse servers:
   https://ipinfo.io/tools/map/91960023-e8c6-4bee-9b07-721f2c8febab

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 16:00:57 JST djsumdog

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     BlueCry isn't federated. I don't understand why anyone would use it. The PDS servers don't talk to each other. It's the same slop you'd get anywhere else.
     
     I host on Hetzner and it's popular because it can be very cheap. You're basically using old hardware. (One of my hosts is old server grade hardware and the other is an old gaming motherboard).
     
     The biggest problem with fedi is the blocklists and censorship. My domain is instantly blocked by any moron who sets up a new server and blindly imports a block list. Nostr seems to be a better solution, but its userbase has fallen heavily.
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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 16:48:35 JST Rob Ricci

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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.

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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 18:52:03 JST cjd

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     • djsumdog
     > and blindly imports a block list
     
     (IQ test)
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 00:27:24 JST djsumdog

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     • millennial falcon
     Are you new here? Most of the block lists out there contain hundreds, if not thousands, of single user instances and dead servers. People who maintain these lists will just add anyone for the slightest reason. Your own instance silences my server and I've even contributed to the Mastodon codebase. People accused me of 'ban evading' when I set up my Pleroma server, even those I have the same username, icon and it's very clearly me.
     
     If you switched from mastodon.social to a place such as shitposter.world or noauthority.social, you would see an ENTIRELY different version of the fediverse.
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     millennial falcon (falcennial@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 00:27:25 JST millennial falcon

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     • djsumdog

     @djsumdog @ricci why would importing a block list block yours? only if your setup was on it tho right, not otherwise?

     it would be pretty unusual for people to go blocking whole servers they havent even heard from I would think. I likely am missing something about how it works.

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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 00:31:39 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     • djsumdog
     • millennial falcon
     @falcennial @djsumdog @ricci
     except they do (i dont even know why im posting since I too am blocked)