Hello Mastodon Family! Lena here from marketing. I'm writing an article on instant messengers with interoperability and I'm looking for some more information on what actually makes a messenger interoperable. I thought of focusing on: Element, Delta, and SimpleX but I'm open to other suggestions! Could anyone kindly advise? ☺️

@datum Mastodon is distributed at the level of the protocol, not infrastructure. Sure, some people use a server in their closet, but most license hyperscaler infra to host their mastodon instance.

Meta note, we seem to be dealing with a confusion in what the term "distributed" means in this context.