GitHub - cloudflare/wildebeest: Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server
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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

  • poVoqA
    7•1 year ago

    Hmm, obviously meant for single user instances and since you bring your own domain it is not total vendor lock-in.

    As a normal Fediverse user you will not even interact with cloudflare servers directly, but only your hopefully non-cloudflare hosted fediverse instance does.

    Personally I would not use it, but I can see its appeal. And its not like other VPS hosts are completely free of proprietary software.

    • Arthur Besse
      3•1 year ago

      since you bring your own domain it is not total vendor lock-in

      sure you can point your domain elsewhere, but i don’t see anything about the ability to export your data in a way that lets you actually migrate to something else (though i think that is arguably required by GDPR…)