Is Mastodon really decentralized and censorship resistant? what if amazon or any cloud provider decide to go after some or all the instances like it did with parler? i think a master piece is still missing like IPFS or STORJ on blockchain as decentralized storage filesystem, i think also that we should look at some early decentralized application like emails and learn from the mistake's that allowed Google as gmail and MS as hotmail and yahoo to takeover by implementing restriction on who is allowed and not to send emails, now day's even if you implement all the good practice ( domainkey, spf...) you'll still not be allowed to direct message to inbox unless the IP is warmed up for few month's or years or whitelisted explicitly. fighting spam should also be thought in a decentralized way.
@ssl Not sure about the #fediverse, but I pretty much guess quite some "self-hosted" instances of whichever service are located somewhere on infrastructure operated by larger cloud providers (Amazon, Azure, ...). That's why I fully agree on the need to have a more decentralized storage system, maybe even one that is "encrypted enough" to trust data to be stored on AWS/EC2 or some other potentially "scalable" yet (from a privacy point of view) dangerous environment.
Niklas
@ssl Yes,Mastodon is really decentralized and censorship resistant.A few instances are hosted at big clouds like Amazon AWS or Micro$oft Azure but I don't think any of them has been taken down yet.And when it happens,only this single instance goes down and the rest of the network continues to work.Fediverse instances use hundreds of different hosters and it's very unlikely that all of them will be taken down by all hosters.And if you know that your content is subject to censoring,you can do it like Gab and buy your own server hardware to operate your instance.A Raspberry Pi is already enough for that.
@ssl Unlike Parler, a decentralized Fediverse means that individual instances do not need to go with the largest hosting companies, but can work with smaller ones, and varied ones. That helps a lot, I think.
@ssl Satan works through the sodomites to censor us. https://jamescwijck.substack.com/p/a-traditional-catholics-manifesto
@ssl
Vague question. You're referring to multiple network layers and contexts.
You may be interested in the Spritely Project
https://spritelyproject.org/
@ssl Parlor doesn't sound to me like it was run particularly well.
Also: there are hosting providers other than amazon. Parlor shut down because they realized they couldn't make a profit. Making a profit on the web means playing certain games and depending on businesses like Apple and Amazon. Most people aren't running mastodon instances for money.