🌌 Periodic #fediworld overview

🔭 Interests and hobbies
• https://screenwriting.space - a place for storytellers
• https://solarpunks.social - network for #solarpunks
• https://rocketscientists.club - community of #3D artists and performers
• https://sunny.garden - for #indie creators who draw, sculpt, write, design, sing, build
• https://craftodon.social - for everyone who plays #Minecraft
• https://introvert.country

🦈
• https://blahaj.social - for people who own at least 1 IKEA BLÅHAJ

#mastoworld

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🎨 https://artworld.social - for artists, curators, art critics, gallerists, collectors, journalists, educators, researchers, specializing in contemporary #art

⛺ https://tyrol.social - #Tyrol area

⛺ https://hameln.social - #Hameln #Germany

🎲 https://dungeons.social - #RPG and #tabletop

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🚄 https://rail.chat - discussions about long-distance, passenger and freight #rail networks, for economic, environmental and equity benefits

⛺ https://krems.social - Krems, #Austria

🎨 https://mensmaaktmooi.nl - community for creative thinkers with unconventional mindset who make beautiful things (#Dutch)

🌌 Periodic #fediworld overview

⛺ Regional
• https://bizkaia.social - #Bizkaia
• https://andalucia.social - #Andalucía

💻 Work
• https://presentadistance.social - discussions about #remote work, telecommuting, team spirit and remote collaborator experience

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Some new #German ⛺ regional servers

• https://nahe.social - #Nahe region
• https://moessingen.social - Mössingen area #Moessingen
• https://odenwald.social - #Odenwald area

Welcome to all #Fediverse newcomers! 👋

Hopefully, we'll see more themed servers and communities too!

🌌 Some recent additions to the network (1/2):

• https://fediverse.co.za - South #Africa

• https://fedisabled.social - for all disabled people

• https://recht.social - focus on #legal topics

• https://sciencemastodon.com - for #science journalists and scientists

• https://dju.social - German #journalists union

#fediworld

🌌 Some recent additions to the network (2/2):

• https://apotheke.social - for anyone from the #pharmacy sector

• https://medic.cafe - for employees in the #medical field

• https://aircrew.rocks - for #pilots, #flight attendants, and flight enthusiasts

• https://genart.social - for #artists working in the generative, AI, and glitch spaces

• https://mastodon.tech - English language #tech and open source

#fediworld

🌌 New themed servers in #Fediverse network (1/3):

• https://astrodon.social - for anyone interested in #astronomy, #astrophysics, #astrophotography, and adjacent sciences

• https://sciences.social - for social #scientists

• https://mstdn.science - for #microbiologists, scientists in general, and #science enthusiasts

• https://earthlings.social - for all precious earthlings

• https://swiss.social - #Switzerland

#fediworld

🌌 New themed servers in Fedi network (2/3):

• https://indiepocalypse.social - for independent #creators of all sorts

• https://makerspace.social - space for makers (#CNC, #woodworking, #microcontrollers, etc)

• https://3dp.chat - #3D printing

• https://brettspiel.space - for #boardgame players

• https://podcasts.social - for #podcasters

#fediworld

🌌 New themed servers in #Fedi network (3/3):

• https://techspace.social - for techies and tech-curious people

• https://techhub.social - for passionate technologists

• https://k8s.social - for #Kubernetes, container and #cloud native enthusiasts

• https://urbanists.social - for people who like #bikes, transit, and walkable #cities

• https://bikejam.social - for bike and pedestrian #infrastructure

• https://bahn.social - for #rail enthusiasts

#fediworld

Now new themed communities appear daily. 😃

I don't want to bore you with server posts. 🤔 So I'll occasionally post only about the ones that caught my attention. For anyone interested in all updates, check the source: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/commits/branch/main/source/en/portal/servers/index.md

Also, feel free to filter out the *fediworld* tag in your Filter settings, if you wish to mute such "server posts".

🌌 New themed servers in #Fediverse:

• https://archaeo.social - for #archaeologists, historians and lovers of all things ancient

• https://astronomy.city - for #astronomy and astronomy-adjacent users

• https://astronomy.social - astronomy, #space travel

• https://cartoonist.social - community for #cartoonists

• https://graphics.social - computer graphics community #3D #2D

• https://veterinary.education - #veterinary medicine

#fediworld

Sometimes we also have to remove many instances from the #FediParty list. :(
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/commit/8c0538bf0cc55e693e5818f04e12d1ca3c9889d7

Instances behind #CloudFlare aren't listed, because there are already hundreds, and this centralises a lot of #fediverse network traffic in #AS13335.

Any change you might use another CDN, masto admins?

Examples:
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/cdn-content-delivery-network

@adrian
@ben
@berkay
@Demiurgo
@gja
@lee
@lile
@miket
@nicdex
@sayah
@seano
@tudi
@vxst

@nemobis @adrian @ben @berkay @Demiurgo @gja @lee @lile @miket @sayah @seano @tudi @vxst

Can you explain the reasoning behind not wanting a lot of traffic behind one network? It make sense in the case of Tor (I run a Tor node), but for Mastodon I'm not sure I understand why?

My reasoning for keeping it: Cloudflare is way more than just CDN. It's a reverse proxy, DDOS and threats protection (WAF), and geo-cache (CDN) all in one. I will never find all these services for that price elsewhere.

@nicdex @nemobis @adrian @ben @berkay @Demiurgo @gja @lee @lile @miket @sayah @seano @tudi

I really don't think I understand. Of course, there could be a danger of being moderated by a single point of power, but we site administrators are human beings, not scripts. If something like this happens, we can always migrate from cloudflare to another CDN, or no CDN at all. It's not something that can't be reversed.

@nicdex See lostinlight's answer at
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/issues/129#issuecomment-713552 .

@vxst You can do something if you know about it, but being behind CloudFlare means that you're delegating to them the day-to-day decision whether your content deserves to be served to users. Sometimes users will hit walls without you knowing anything about it. (I'm sure there are workarounds but we cannot reverse engineer how people are using CloudFlare.)

@adrian @ben @berkay @Demiurgo @gja @lee @lile @miket @sayah @seano @tudi