Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted.
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Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe.
But their map is wrong.
Here's what Mastodon actually looks like, and what the Fediverse as a whole actually looks like.
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@xrobau @colinburgess it's there, it just shows up in San Francisco because it's behind CloudFlare
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@xrobau @colinburgess it's there, it just shows up in San Francisco because it's behind CloudFlare
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Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe.
But their map is wrong.
Here's what Mastodon actually looks like, and what the Fediverse as a whole actually looks like.
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Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe.
But their map is wrong.
Here's what Mastodon actually looks like, and what the Fediverse as a whole actually looks like.
@ricci
I don't think W is an EU backed SMN. I think it's simply in Europe?I could be wrong, but it looks like PR baloney.
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@xrobau @colinburgess yeah I wish I had a way to peek behind it but obfuscating the actual source is kinda the whole point, to avoid load on the origin
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@ricci
I don't think W is an EU backed SMN. I think it's simply in Europe?I could be wrong, but it looks like PR baloney.
@raymaccarthy idk I just saw their shitty map that is bad and they should feel bad about it
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@xrobau @colinburgess yeah I wish I had a way to peek behind it but obfuscating the actual source is kinda the whole point, to avoid load on the origin
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Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe.
But their map is wrong.
Here's what Mastodon actually looks like, and what the Fediverse as a whole actually looks like.
@ricci
Nice to see the little dot points on Australia…
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plenty of room for more! Same in Greenland… Africa… other places… Great idea to do this mapping of Fedi worlwide! 
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@ricci
Nice to see the little dot points on Australia…🦘plenty of room for more! Same in Greenland… Africa… other places… Great idea to do this mapping of Fedi worlwide! @Su_G there are probably more there than it looks like, some are behind CloudFlare, Fastly, etc which generally makes them look like they are in the US
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Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe.
But their map is wrong.
Here's what Mastodon actually looks like, and what the Fediverse as a whole actually looks like.
@ricci Nice!
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@Su_G there are probably more there than it looks like, some are behind CloudFlare, Fastly, etc which generally makes them look like they are in the US
@ricci
Good to know! So it’s the minimum that we’re seeing mapped for the seemingly sparse areas.
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@ricci
Good to know! So it’s the minimum that we’re seeing mapped for the seemingly sparse areas.@Su_G yup. wish I had a way to map stuff behind CDNs, but I don't, that's kinda the purpose of a CDN
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@colinburgess @xrobau thanks maybe I can pull this kind of thing from their API, I'll check
Also, unrelated, I'm the owner of xrob.org so uh hi
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@Su_G yup. wish I had a way to map stuff behind CDNs, but I don't, that's kinda the purpose of a CDN
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Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe.
But their map is wrong.
Here's what Mastodon actually looks like, and what the Fediverse as a whole actually looks like.
@ricci I bet it’s owned by another bunch of techbros. Just techbros not from USA.
Let’s call them ’Eurobros’ because they just want to do a repeat inside Europe of what the neoliberal project managed to make of the US.
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Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe.
But their map is wrong.
Here's what Mastodon actually looks like, and what the Fediverse as a whole actually looks like.
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Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe.
But their map is wrong.
Here's what Mastodon actually looks like, and what the Fediverse as a whole actually looks like.
@ricci can you point me to a source that "the EU" has launched that network? With a CEO from Switzerland, famously not an EU member?
