From 1bcd6da524dc3282c0ebcc184c8f26e0eb181e7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lostinlight Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 02:44:02 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Fix images, somewhat --- source/_posts/fediverse-in-2019.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/_posts/fediverse-in-2019.md b/source/_posts/fediverse-in-2019.md index 205016a..4493fe1 100644 --- a/source/_posts/fediverse-in-2019.md +++ b/source/_posts/fediverse-in-2019.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "net Storm of applause 👏 for all long-time Fediverse supporters, and a warm welcome 👍 to every new user who found Fediverse in 2019. -![Constellation of stars forming "You're in Fediverse" phrase](in-fediverse.jpg) +![Constellation of stars forming "You're in Fediverse" phrase](https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2019/in-fediverse.jpg) Here's what happened to our small corner of the Internet in the past year. @@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ In 2019 the reachable Fediverse grew from 3.986 instances to 5.027 - that's roug The number of registered accounts increased from 2.500.000 users to roughly 4.300.000 - about 🎉 1.800.000 newcomers explored Fediverse networks! -![Old-school North American family looks at the sky and says Wow Fediverse is growing](is-growing.jpg) +![Old-school North American family looks at the sky and says Wow Fediverse is growing](https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2019/is-growing.jpg) Five networks growing most rapidly in *online* server numbers in 2019 were: -![Pleroma +182 servers, Mastodon +159, WriteFreely +147, Pixelfed +73, PeerTube +63](top-growing.jpg) +![Pleroma +182 servers, Mastodon +159, WriteFreely +147, Pixelfed +73, PeerTube +63](https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2019/top-growing.jpg) Three other Fediverse platforms that expanded significantly in 2019: @@ -137,15 +137,15 @@ At least 13 new networks expressed a wish to be One of the main goals of federating software is decentralizing the web. That requires many Fediverse servers each having a small number of users, hosting data in physically decentralized manner. That's the ideal, a perfect image. -![Illustration of many small interconnected stars](ideal.jpg) +![Illustration of many small interconnected stars](https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2019/ideal.jpg) But in real world most people register on large Fediverse servers with thousands of users: they're popular, more stable and reliable, their friends are there. And server administrators tend to choose large, well-known hosting solutions: they're cheaper, more stable and reliable. This leads to a situation where 80% of total users are all crowded on 10 large ("flagship") instances, and 40% of all servers are hosted mainly by 5 companies. -![Illustration of two huge (fat) servers talking to each other](de-burp-lization.jpg) +![Illustration of two huge (fat) servers talking to each other](https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2019/de-burp-lization.jpg) Most used providers 2019: -![list of most used hosting providers](providers.jpg) +![list of most used hosting providers](https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2019/providers.jpg) You can see Mastodon statistics on [servers](http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/general) and [providers](http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/providers). A representation of all Fediverse hosting providers may be found [here](https://fediverse.network/servers). The situation hasn't changed much since 2018 Leah's [research](https://chaos.social/@leah/99837391793032137) on server distribution. Will something change in 2020?