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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

  •  anova (she/they/it)   ( @anova@beehaw.org ) 
    3•1 year 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

    •  Râu Cao ⚡   ( @raucao@kosmos.social ) 
      1•1 year ago

      @anova Same. If Amazon created their own ActivityPub implementation, that would be yet another one that has to interop with all the other implementations, thus creating a healthier, more diverse ecosystem. Now people are mostly just running Mastodon on AWS.

      The Cloudflare move is important not because of their infra, but because it’s a new server implementation, which can only run on Cloudflare, thus always having to interop with other implementations (except for insular, corporate use cases).