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Mindly.Social is an English speaking, friendly Mastodon instance created for people who want to use their brains and their hearts to make social networking more social. 🧠💖

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New blog post! "Where is all of the fediverse?"

The fediverse is de-centralised, but it still needs to be hosted behind something, in this post I investigate where the most of the instances are, and working around caching proxies to get a better idea of how resilient to hosting disasters the ecosystem is.

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

KuJoe 💞

@benjojo This was an awesome post! I loved that over 30% of instances behind Cloudflare are self-hosted at home.

Mindly.Social does fit into that larger percentage of users hosted at Hetzner, but that changes tomorrow once I migrate to our new host so the timing of this article is great because I'm glad to see I'm reducing the number of users hosted on a single host. 🤓

@ian @benjojo I've got my own hardware colocated in a local data center. I have a cabinet I share with my company so the costs are much much lower.