Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted.

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.

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/?source=fedi

@ricci @xrobau I see!

@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.

@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

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.

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/?source=fedi

@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!

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.

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/?source=fedi

@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.

@ricci @xrobau hey Rob, what’s that database you added our servers to the other day? Could that be useful to Rob for locating mastodon hosts more accurately?

@colinburgess @ricci https://fedidb.com/software/mastodon?region=oceania

@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

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.

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/?source=fedi

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.

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/?source=fedi

@ricci @azuidhof for a moment I really thought the EU was wasting money and time on this. But it’s only a bunch of independent organizations/companies that are reinventing the wheel again. This will fail before it’s even started.

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.

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/?source=fedi

@azuidhof @mfr they're actually using atproto, which is what Bluesky runs on, so I give them a little more chance of success because of that

@ricci @azuidhof ah , I didn’t look that far. But then it’ll be just another instance on an existing network methinks, or do they want to be decoupled and make a Chinese walled version?

@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?

@ricci

Maybe only tech bro corporate social media sites count.