There is an outage affecting the Noswhere relay due to a failing disk in one of the servers.
With bluesky (mostly) going down for a few hours today, I got to wondering about how decentralized the fediverse really is in terms of where its servers are hosted. I grabbed a server list from fedidb, with network information coming from ipinfo.io .
These stats are by the number of *servers* not the number of *users* (maybe I'll run those stats later).
fedidb currently tracks 2,650 servers of various types (Mastodon, pixelfed, lemmy, misskey, peertube, etc)
The fediverse is most vulnerable to disruptions at CloudFlare: 24% of Fediverse servers are behind it. Also note that this means that I don't have real data on where this 24% are located or hosted, since CloudFlare obscures this by design.
Beyond CloudFlare, the fediverse is not too concentrated on any one network. The most popular host, Hertzner, only hosts 14% of fediverse servers, and it falls off fast from there.
Here are the top networks where fediverse servers are hosted:
504 Cloudflare, Inc.
356 Hetzner Online GmbH
130 DigitalOcean, LLC
114 OVH SAS
56 netcup GmbH
55 Amazon.com, Inc.
55 Akamai Connected Cloud
36 Contabo GmbH
33 SAKURA Internet Inc.
32 The Constant Company, LLC
31 Xserver Inc.
28 SCALEWAY S.A.S.
24 Google LLC
23 Oracle Corporation
16 GMO Internet Group, Inc.
14 IONOS SE
14 FranTech Solutions
11 Hostinger International Limited
10 Nubes, LLC
Half of fediverse servers are on networks that host 50 or fewer servers - that's pretty good for resiliency.
There is even more diversity when it comes to BGP prefixes, which is good for resiliency: for example, the cloud providers that have multiple availability zones will generally have them on different prefixes, so this gets closer to giving us a picture of the specific bits of infrastructure the fediverse relies on.
The top BGP prefixes:
55 104.21.48.0/20
50 104.21.16.0/20
48 104.21.64.0/20
41 104.21.32.0/20
41 104.21.0.0/20
38 104.21.80.0/20
32 172.67.128.0/20
31 172.67.144.0/20
28 172.67.208.0/20
28 162.43.0.0/17
27 104.26.0.0/20
26 172.67.192.0/20
26 172.67.176.0/20
23 172.67.160.0/20
19 116.203.0.0/16
17 172.67.64.0/20
17 159.69.0.0/16
16 65.109.0.0/16
14 88.99.0.0/16
14 49.13.0.0/16
13 78.46.0.0/15
13 167.235.0.0/16
13 138.201.0.0/16
11 95.217.0.0/16
11 95.216.0.0/16
11 49.12.0.0/16
11 135.181.0.0/16
10 37.27.0.0/16
10 157.90.0.0/16
75% of fediverse servers are behind BGP prefixes that host 10 or fewer servers, meaning that the fediverse is *very* resilient to large network outages.
Top countries where fediverse servers are hosted:
871 United States
439 Germany
156 France
148 Japan
75 Finland
57 Canada
49 Netherlands
38 United Kingdom
26 Switzerland
26 South Korea
21 Spain
19 Sweden
18 Austria
17 Australia
15 Russia
12 Czech Republic
10 Singapore
10 Italy
And finally, a map of the locations of fediverse servers:
https://ipinfo.io/tools/map/91960023-e8c6-4bee-9b07-721f2c8febab
BGP prefixes mean nothing as IPv4 space is extremely fragmented
I think there is something fishy going on.
They mention hosting a blossom server so it may be that they have received and ignored abuse reports relating to copyrighted material or CSAM.
It also feels unusual they would say “nostr is not allowed”, considering most people or hosts do not know what Nostr is.
I want more details about the exchange. If they were asked to take down the content. As is, screenshots (ofc redacted personal info)
and probably will turn it into a mass produced product if I make it. so there’s that too
you asked why *I* don’t like them 😆
because why use them when you can make your own with custom firmware?
Do you guys realise how wild this is?
"A lifetime ago, I used to be a sysops at a hosting company. Migrating this much stuff would have taken me about a week of fighting old package versions, database migrations, updating configurations.
Now I literally GAVE ROOT ACCESS TO AN LLM to help me out and it literally did it extremely well. The setup it accomplished is already better than my very ad-hoc deployment I had in my previous server." - nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft, April 2025
thanks for reminding me that shitfluencer exists
the downfall of society has begun
you’ll be publishing the relay snapshot? I’ll want that
deploy a relay in seconds 👀
automated high availability, and options to set up a friends or WoT relay
Nostr.land does not nuke your data
nostr:note1c5lraltdqarvurr2pvyn36g90n2acp2e6cucqrchg696tpehqpqswu5kfj
of the hardware, or better known as “fuck, that’ll be $2M+ to fix” variety
nostr:nprofile1qqsxjvepw89pg6y44hlxse3mez0rvh80t7uh54rcp2axl65t40aj6sgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctc9xsxm6 has gotten it's first PR to fix one of the bugs that I listed on the GitHub issues page. NOICE! I'll deploy it later this morning after this fiat meeting.
have you tried vibe coding in more bugs? 🐛
You might be interested in SP12
Security keys for life.
Though I am fed up with Yubikey