cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/3045

Now this is interesting. A Fediverse platform developed by Cloudflare that inherently runs on Cloudflare without needing dedicated infrastructure.

The code is open source yet the platform itself is inherently proprietary. It’s going to be very interesting how this unfolds given how unpopular Cloudflare is with many Fediverse admins

  • Râu Cao ⚡@kosmos.social
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    2 years ago

    @anova Why would you ban yourself from interacting with someone who voluntarily chooses provider X or Y or Z for anything? That’s their choice, not yours.

    Half the fediverse already runs on servers provided by only 3 companies. If anything, adding more to the mix, both implementations and hosting providers, is healthy for a decentralized ecosystem.

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      2 years ago

      Why would you ban yourself from interacting with someone who voluntarily chooses provider X or Y or Z for anything?

      Because I’m petty

      Half the fediverse already runs on servers provided by only 3 companies

      I also don’t know those three companies off the top of my head, and while I definitely believe you, I can’t imagine they are anywhere near as big as Cloudflare. If you’re talking about cloud service providers, I’d also consider running an instance that ignores say, AWS instances, but I think that’s a bit different since they don’t specifically provide “activitypub” services afaik. With Cloudflare, it’s much more explicit