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According to this page, there are 20k+ active nodes on the fediverse: https://fediverse.observer/stats https://fediverse.observer/stats

by panic 3y ago

anonymous_sorry 3y ago
Thanks for this link! I wonder why France and Germany have 6 and 8 times as many servers as the UK. Mind you, per capita France and Germany also have way more servers than the USA. Interesting.
- dumpsterlid 3y ago
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- ipsum2 3y ago
  Hetzner is in Germany, not sure about France.
  - byhemechi 3y ago
    my guess is OVH
- input_sh 3y ago
  For one, Mastodon's author is from Germany, but I don't think that has a lot of impact. What definitely does is that the major European server providers tend to be located in one of those two countries (like OVH or Hetzner). Note that server location != user location, users could be anywhere in Europe without a noticeable latency. Doesn't make any sense for me to pay for a server located in my country when I can find one in Germany with an order of magnitude better performance for the price.
  - rsynnott 3y ago
    Also, I think a couple of the major white-label Mastodon hosting services live on Hetzner and/or OVH.
- Jakob 3y ago
  I assume it’s a mix of cheap Hetzner/OVH, a bigger inclination for decentralisation and privacy, and an early adopter mindset. They lead many tech stats per capita. Another example is the amount of French and German wikipedia pages, patents, research, internet penetration, renewable energy … A shame that the focus on car manufacturing for so long cannibalised the software business. I think it could have been a software powerhouse, but was/is not focussing at all on it outside of some shining outliers.
- midasz 3y ago
  I don't have the data to support it but I think Germans in general care a whole lot more about privacy than any other country
- realfeel78 3y ago
  Maybe French and German users have lower standards for good UX.
  - mal-2 3y ago
    So tired of this take. There are so many frontends, besides just the built-in interfaces for Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma there's also web-based frontends like Elk and Enafore, and tons of different native apps on mobile.

According to this page, there are 20k+ active nodes on the fediverse: https://fediverse.observer/stats https://fediverse.observer/stats

by panic 3y ago

According to this page, there are 20k+ active nodes on the fediverse: https://fediverse.observer/stats https://fediverse.observer/stats

anonymous_sorry 3y ago

Thanks for this link! I wonder why France and Germany have 6 and 8 times as many servers as the UK. Mind you, per capita France and Germany also have way more servers than the USA. Interesting.

dumpsterlid 3y ago
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ipsum2 3y ago
Hetzner is in Germany, not sure about France.
- byhemechi 3y ago
  my guess is OVH
input_sh 3y ago
For one, Mastodon's author is from Germany, but I don't think that has a lot of impact. What definitely does is that the major European server providers tend to be located in one of those two countries (like OVH or Hetzner). Note that server location != user location, users could be anywhere in Europe without a noticeable latency. Doesn't make any sense for me to pay for a server located in my country when I can find one in Germany with an order of magnitude better performance for the price.
- rsynnott 3y ago
  Also, I think a couple of the major white-label Mastodon hosting services live on Hetzner and/or OVH.
Jakob 3y ago
I assume it’s a mix of cheap Hetzner/OVH, a bigger inclination for decentralisation and privacy, and an early adopter mindset. They lead many tech stats per capita. Another example is the amount of French and German wikipedia pages, patents, research, internet penetration, renewable energy … A shame that the focus on car manufacturing for so long cannibalised the software business. I think it could have been a software powerhouse, but was/is not focussing at all on it outside of some shining outliers.
midasz 3y ago
I don't have the data to support it but I think Germans in general care a whole lot more about privacy than any other country
realfeel78 3y ago
Maybe French and German users have lower standards for good UX.
- mal-2 3y ago
  So tired of this take. There are so many frontends, besides just the built-in interfaces for Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma there's also web-based frontends like Elk and Enafore, and tons of different native apps on mobile.