@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.
Somebody please #timewarp me to 1999-01-06 and invent an #IETF #standard #protocol for federated #instantMessaging 🙂
Btw. my local internet club, founded in 1995, does host both #Jabber and Matrix now. No #hyperscaler involved. No #selfHosting needed.