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Interestingly, the site is based on Mastadon mean that it is, or at least has the potential to be, federated. If one server hosting the data is blocked or goes
by johnhenry 8y ago
Interestingly, the site is based on Mastadon mean that it is, or at least has the potential to be, federated. If one server hosting the data is blocked or goes down, another federated server will still hold the data. So, in a way, they're avoiding a need for something like Cloudflare.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoMastodon is federated in the sense that users can be on different servers and interact, and yes, the data from one server ends up incidentally being cached on others, but those users still only exist on the server they are on. If switter.at is shutdown, switter.at users cannot login or post, and people most likely cannot see switter.at posts or follow switter.at accounts. And there's still massive benefit to a Mastodon instance of being able to serve it's content over a CDN for bandwidth cost concerns.