Obviously there are also threats, but they are different threats than those that apply to centralized platforms. One of the threats, in fact, is centralization itself — if people flock to a few gigantic instances, that creates a central point of failure, potentially.
But there are currently ~20k independently run fedi instances. Some had been running for a decade or longer.
Damn, I didn’t know that the idea behind the Fediverse have been around for so long! I started hearing about it at about the same time the ActivityPub protocol started being a thing, so I thought it was only a few years old…
Obviously there are also threats, but they are different threats than those that apply to centralized platforms. One of the threats, in fact, is centralization itself — if people flock to a few gigantic instances, that creates a central point of failure, potentially.
But there are currently ~20k independently run fedi instances. Some had been running for a decade or longer.
As I said, we’re here for the long run.
Damn, I didn’t know that the idea behind the Fediverse have been around for so long! I started hearing about it at about the same time the ActivityPub protocol started being a thing, so I thought it was only a few years old…
TIL I guess. Thanks!