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  • The bigger trouble is creating a CDN has a stupidly high barrier to entry. You literally need your own data centers across the world, your own server infrastructure, the man power to manage it, etc.

    You could try to host it on a cloud provider but you’d go bankrupt even quicker. Unless someone were to try to build a co-op run CDN, it’s just not gonna happen without a profit motive and a large amount of capital.




  • I know others will expand on this, but in the past there were two main “bases”: Debian and Enterprise Linux (EL). The main differences were their package managers and how the handled things in init.d and configuration like networking. This was due to how they made their modules iirc.

    So a lot of distros forked off of these two bases rather than reinvent the wheel. Ubuntu is based off of Debian and CentOS based off of RHEL.

    There’s probably more nuances but that should give you an idea.







  • That’s why self hosting constantly gets brought up. If someone has direct access to the database (I.e the instance owner) they can see all of it for that instance. But a general admin on that instance can not see it.

    Likewise, the ActivityPub format that is used to connect instances, only really sends things like posts, comments, votes, etc. this is why you can’t log in to another instance and retrieve things like your saved posts.

    So if you want the best privacy, and no one to see you’ve been closetly saving furry porn, host your own instance so you have control of access to the database.