Julian OliverFeb 27

Every server deployment on Amazon's AWS, Google's GCP and MS Azure feeds the beast.

Not only do they reinforce pathways of centralisation in the topological sense, but they also invest in US supremacy geopolitically. That supremacy now openly includes a theocratic & racist, war-mongering & imperialist movement.

Every server you spin up at home or on a smaller DC, like every abandoned Google, Twitter or FB account, slows the beast down.

The 3D's:

Depopulate. Defund. Disempower.

#bigtech

Show threadlil5Feb 27
@JulianOliver

That’s funny coming from the biggest US mastodon server.
Show threadJulian OliverFeb 27
@lil5 Running on Hetzner, in Germany. Like the two instances I run.
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@JulianOliver

Apologies, https://fedidb.com/servers/mastodon.social says that it’s located in the US, while https://mastodon.social/about says that is run in Germany.

@fedidb Why is this?



Feb 28 at 9:08amWeb
Show threadJulian OliverFeb 28

@lil5 @fedidb @lil5 @fedidb No worries.

I think I see why. After some digging it's because Mastodon.social now uses US-based Fastly for DDoS protection & caching, effectively 'in front' of all traffic to their DE-based Hetzner instance:

https://www.fastly.com/customers/mastodon

If you geoip you see this.

I did not know that had taken place & think Mastodon gGmbH should've been transparent abt it.

As for the hosting itself, this is an interesting view, though 2 years old now:

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances

Fastly + Mastodon GmbH

Mastodon scales and protects social media app servers and reduces egress by 75%.

Show threadJulian OliverFeb 28

@lil5 @fedidb FWIW I joined this node when it was a village, way back. I will move this account to another of my own instances as it is indeed better to spread out.

Fastly are like baby Cloudflare, an MiTM on traffic, massive metadata harvesters. This I do not like.