Anil DashJun 13, 2023
Okay, Mastodon friends, I rarely ask for amplification about my day job, but I personally pushed for my employer to make a big investment in enabling the fediverse, and I'd love for everyone to show that the support is appreciated. On June 28, you can join us for a (FREE!) hands-on conversation about how the Fastly team worked to support @Mastodon while the service was under a *massive* DDOS attack. Everyone who cares about scaling the fediverse should join: https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon @devs
Mitigating DDOS in the Fediverse with Mastodon | Fastly

Experts from Mastodon and Fastly’s CSOC team share lessons learned from mitigating DDOS attacks on Mastodon Social and techniques for protecting federated architectures.

Show threadAlexJun 13, 2023

@anildash @Mastodon @devs

Fastly is a publicy-traded company with revenues in the hundreds of millions. Are "Publicly-traded cloud computing company" and "decentralized, privacy-focused social media service" compatible concepts?

Show threadMarkus 👨‍💻
@yowtfbecool @anildash @Mastodon @devs Why not? The best decentralized example is email. Everyone uses it, no matter how big.
Jun 13, 2023 at 8:40pmToot!
Show threadAlexJun 13, 2023

@markusr @anildash @Mastodon @devs gmail is no more decentralized than facebook.

privacy concerns have as much to do w/ who has access to data as they do w/ how it's stored and how much, how it's protected and what the paper trail looks like. for comparison, take VPNs. what are the criteria for a good one?

public companies care about the end-user until it makes financial sense not to, which is usually right before they sell. a cloud company's main asset is data. fool me once...

Show threadNate MJun 13, 2023
@yowtfbecool @markusr @anildash @Mastodon @devs Not Gmail. Email. You're part of the problem. Email is not Gmail. You can sign up to any email service and still interact with another. There's other services like mailbox.org, fastmail, etc
Show threadAlexJun 13, 2023

@natemtn @markusr @anildash @Mastodon @devs gmail is google, facebook is meta, fastly is fastly. u missed the point. probably my fault. character limits.

e-mail can contact e-mail, so why choose proton over yahoo? the service providers are not decentralized. i guess one could use Tor, but a multilayered approach would be prudent, if not preferable. Tor into a decentralized, privacy-focused social media service that doesn't deal with publicly-traded data companies. 👍❤️

Show threadJasonJun 14, 2023
@natemtn @yowtfbecool @markusr @anildash @Mastodon @devs mailbox.org is great