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Wildebeest - A cloudflare based Fediverse server
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@anova Why would you ban yourself from interacting with someone who voluntarily chooses provider X or Y or Z for anything? That's their choice, not yours.
Half the fediverse already runs on servers provided by only 3 companies. If anything, adding more to the mix, both implementations and hosting providers, is healthy for a decentralized ecosystem.
Because I'm petty
I also don't know those three companies off the top of my head, and while I definitely believe you, I can't imagine they are anywhere near as big as Cloudflare. If you're talking about cloud service providers, I'd also consider running an instance that ignores say, AWS instances, but I think that's a bit different since they don't specifically provide "activitypub" services afaik. With Cloudflare, it's much more explicit
is it really half? and which three companies?
Likely Hetzner, Netcup and OVH. Large relatively cheap VPS providers in Europe.
I remember reading an article some time ago about someone actually investigating that and there was also some large US hoster in the mix. but those few made up 80-90% of the fediverse instances.
Edit: found it: https://bitkeks.eu/blog/2020/03/underlying-problem-fediverse-decentralised-platforms.html
ah, i misread your initial post. i thought you meant half of all users were hosted by a few instances. thanks for that article!