Meanwhile, because Mastodon server admins are all cheapskates and we're not going to pay the sort of prices for hosting that AWS charge, the Fediverse keeps on chugging away happily while the corporate internet falls apart.

#AWS #AWSdown #Fediverse

@losttourist wait for an outage at Hetznerโ€ฆ
@xgebi
@losttourist That was what I were going to say ๐Ÿ˜…
According to https://fediverse.observer/stats about a quarter of instances is hosted by Hetzner ๐Ÿ˜…
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@BentiGorlich @xgebi @losttourist there's also this article from Jan 2024 that claims the share is actually much larger but hidden by many of them being behind Cloudflare etc. Just hard to confirm since the real IP is not supposed to be exposed and they don't say how they managed to figure it out: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances
Where is all of the fediverse?