Everyone Wants Servers And Nobody Wants Servers
Summary
The article analyzes resilience in open social networks, contrasting federated models like the fediverse with centralized or semi-centralized approaches. It argues resilience is an emergent property dependent on people running interoperable services, reviews real-world incidents (DDoS on Bluesky and mastodon.social), and surveys current projects (Bonfire, Gander, Blacksky, Eurosky) and organizational forms shaping the future of distributed social networks.