ActivityPub and Mastodon brought new incentives into the world of decentralised communication platforms, even so far as I would call it a serious alternative to platforms like Twitter. But all efforts made by hundreds of individuals every day – administrating servers, developing software and moderating communities – have a weak spot which needs to be addressed in the near future: who has control over the underlying computing infrastructure of the Fediverse? And are users aware of the conditions?

Some interesting data on hosting service centralization of mastodon instances.

  • southerntofu@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    Good points about:

    • centralization of hosting (people host Fediverse stuff on AMAZON, really?)
    • centralized trust in Certificate Authorities
    • federating identity is not exactly the same as federating services… if you need a different account for Mastodon, Peertube and Lemmy then we’ve failed as a federated protocol (my phrasing)