Fediverse instances on weird hardware, networks and operating systems
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Big centralized social networks run on big iron. Those have cool aspects and can be challenging to maintain, but ultimately I find them boring: you just throw a lot of VC money at the problem, and then it ‘works’.
On the fediverse, people run instances of the software in the most ridiculous possible configurations, just for fun. On a more serious note, I think this makes it a better network: if the software can run on a wide variety of hardware, operating systems and network configurations, the quality of the software improves and it makes it harder to disrupt the network as a whole. Who has a zero day that runs on SCO UNIX, Windows CE and Minix 3? :-)
Note: I am using Wayback Machine links so that memes can just go offline without my blog breaking (The Internet Archive can of course go offline as well, but I think they are slightly more stable than individual fedi instances). They might be still up when you read this, though!
- @domi@donotsta.re started an instance on an .ip6.arpa domain here
- @dam@lethallava.land started an instance on an e164.arpa domain here
- @doskel@doskel.net: a GoToSocial instance on their car, see here
- @kfh@chaos.social: a Mastodon instance on an in-addr.arpa domain here
- Unfortunately the fedi server on Discord is down as we speak, but I could make a screenshot from my home instance:
Please, give me more links to different instances, I want to make this list as complete as possible! See my homepage for my contact info.