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I think the biggest difficulty would be able to figure out a scoring system that works for all platforms.
Eg. What does "being able to migrate users" mean?
Does it include followers? Content etc.?
And what about "sub-reddits" it's important for it to be able to be migrated for Reddit/Lemmy but PeerTube doesn't have something like that
Ability to migrate is definitely very important, In a newer version I'll add it in.
What weight do you think it should have?
I'll shrink the others so the score stays 100
Sure thing, I posted v1.2
Decentralization Scoring System (v1.2)
🧮 Decentralization Scoring System (v1.2)
This scoring system evaluates how decentralized and self-hostable a platform is, based on four core metrics.
📊 Scoring Metrics (Total: 100 Points)
| Metric | Weight | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Top Provider User Share | 30 | Measures how many users are on the largest instance. Full points if <10%; 0 if >80%. |
| Top Provider Content Share | 30 | Measures how much content is hosted by the largest instance. Full points if <10%; 0 if >80%. |
| Ease of Self-Hosting: Server | 20 | Technical ease of running your own backend. Full points for Docker/simple setup with good docs. |
| Ease of Self-Hosting: User Interface | 20 | Availability and usability of clients. Full points for accessible, FOSS, multi-platform clients. |
📋 Example Breakdown (Estimates)
| Platform | Score | Visualization
|---
Thanks this is a great idea.
I like the simplicity of that current scoring system (only 4 metrics)
Perhaps the same metric can be used, but applied for different cultures and languages.
Eg Lemmy would score high in English, but not in French.
I'll keep refining it and listening to input.
Yea most services are basically fully controlled by one entity and score like less than 10.
So 50+ is really good, I think currently Email is the gold standard. Services should strive to be as decentralised as Email
Yea I made a mistake with that, I corrected it in v1.1
In version 1.1 I uploaded Email, it now has a score of 90
The source I used before was wildly inaccurate.
I think above 50 id acceptable, but that's open for discussion.
Lemmy & Mastodon loses a lot of points due to one instance having ~40% of the users and content.
It's motivation for us to make sure everyone doesn't just end up on lemmy.world
How would you redefine this?
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- **Very Easy**: One-command Docker, low resources, great documentation → **18–20 points** - **Moderate**: Docker or manual setup, some config, active community support → **13–17 points** - **Hard**: Complex setup, needs regular updates or custom config (e.g. DNS, spam) → **6–12 points** - **Very Hard or Proprietary**: Little to no self-hosting support, undocumented → **0–5 points**
Fixed in version 1.1 on GitHub
That's very wrong yes. I fixed that in version 1.1 on GitHub.
Still not perfect, but I'll work on it further after easter weekend
Thanks, I need to think about how to score that, but good idea.
You're right, I'll update the example data in the next version
That's a mistake, I'll update the examples in the next version
I'll correct that in v1.1
You are 100% correct yes, As I said I didn't put much effort into making sure the data in the examples are correct. This post is more about getting visibility on the idea. I will put more effort into better data and more examples.
I'd love to do that, there are existing Fediverse stats websites that should be able to implement this without too much difficulty.
Based on my brief searches yes, but I haven't looked into the example data in great detail.
If you have a good data point for me I can update the examples.
Decentralization Scoring System
🧮 Decentralization Scoring System (v1.0)
This scoring system evaluates how decentralized and self-hostable a platform is, based on four core metrics.
📊 Scoring Metrics (Total: 100 Points)
Top Provider User Share (30 points): Measures how many users are on the largest instance. Full points if <10%; 0 if >80%.
Top Provider Content Share (30 points): Measures how much content is hosted by the largest instance. Full points if <10%; 0 if >80%.
Ease of Self-Hosting: Server (20 points): Technical ease of running your own backend. Full points for Docker/simple setup with good docs.
Ease of Self-Hosting: User Interface (20 points): Availability and usability of clients. Full points for accessible, FOSS, multi-platform clients.
📋 Example Breakdown (Estimates)
📧 Email (2025)
- Top Provider User Share: Apple ≈ 53.67% → Score: 4.5/30
- Top Provider Content Share: Apple likely handles >50% of mail → Score: 4.5/30
- **Self-Hosting: Serv
Agreed, we need to find a way to take as much if not all subjectivity out of the calculation. And get reliable data.
This is just a starting point, it can be improved a lot.
The main reason for me creating this is to shine light on services like Bluesky claiming to be Decentralised, but they are in fact not.
If we have an unbiased scoring system, then we can make things like this clear to people, and we can work towards building truly robust decentralised services.
This can even be used to help move users or content to smaller instances to help strengthen decentralisation
Decentralization Scoring System
🧮 Decentralization Scoring System (v1.0)
This scoring system evaluates how decentralized and self-hostable a platform is, based on four core metrics.
📊 Scoring Metrics (Total: 100 Points)
Top Provider User Share (30 points): Measures how many users are on the largest instance. Full points if <10%; 0 if >80%.
Top Provider Content Share (30 points): Measures how much content is hosted by the largest instance. Full points if <10%; 0 if >80%.
Ease of Self-Hosting: Server (20 points): Technical ease of running your own backend. Full points for Docker/simple setup with good docs.
Ease of Self-Hosting: User Interface (20 points): Availability and usability of clients. Full points for accessible, FOSS, multi-platform clients.
📋 Example Breakdown (Estimates)
📧 Email (2025)
- Top Provider User Share: Apple ≈ 53.67% → Score: 4.5/30
- Top Provider Content Share: Apple likely handles >50% of mail → Score: 4.5/30
- **Self-Hosting: Serv
The main reason for me creating this is to shine light on services like Bluesky claiming to be Decentralised, but they are in fact not.
If we have an unbiased scoring system, then we can make things like this clear to people, and we can work towards building truly robust decentralised services.
This can even be used to help move users or content to smaller instances to help strengthen decentralisation
Decentralization Scoring System
🧮 Decentralization Scoring System (v1.0)
This scoring system evaluates how decentralized and self-hostable a platform is, based on four core metrics.
📊 Scoring Metrics (Total: 100 Points)
Top Provider User Share (30 points): Measures how many users are on the largest instance. Full points if <10%; 0 if >80%.
Top Provider Content Share (30 points): Measures how much content is hosted by the largest instance. Full points if <10%; 0 if >80%.
Ease of Self-Hosting: Server (20 points): Technical ease of running your own backend. Full points for Docker/simple setup with good docs.
Ease of Self-Hosting: User Interface (20 points): Availability and usability of clients. Full points for accessible, FOSS, multi-platform clients.
📋 Example Breakdown (Estimates)
📧 Email (2025)
- Top Provider User Share: Apple ≈ 53.67% → Score: 4.5/30
- Top Provider Content Share: Apple likely handles >50% of mail → Score: 4.5/30
- **Self-Hosting: Serv
How do I best deal with lots of Errors and Warnings after setting up Turnkey-Nextcloud?
I'm new to selfhosting, I've installed Turnkey nextcloud on my proxmox server, and done the basic setup, now I'm faced with this.
Any advice?
Feature Request: Share button should provide a Photon Link
If I'm viewing eg. This post: https://phtn.app/post/lemm.ee/57383020
And I click share, then this is the link I get https://lemmy.kde.social/post/3025106 or https://lemm.ee/post/57383020
It would be better to get a Photon link (https://phtn.app/post/lemm.ee/57383020), that keeps the UI the same and gives a smoother experience.
If I share the other links with my friends, they don't see the Photon UI
What search engine should I use instead of Google?
On Google if I search "Mens Boots" I immediately see lots of results from shops in Amsterdam and near me selling boots.
When I use DuckDuckGo the results are useless unless I add "Amsterdam" and then it only shows me Amsterdam results, instead of Google which would also show me shops from Germany etc. That has quick delivery times etc.
What are my options? (Non-American would be great)
He will never be a 4-time world champion this way
10 lessons for stronger movements
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/636389
remember...
Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight?
Should I run nextcloud in Proxmox on my NUC?
I'm new to homelabs, I used to run minecraft, immich and Home Assistant on my NUC pc.
But I recently moved Home Assistant to it's own cheap mini PC, formatted my NUC and installed Proxmox on it.
I'd like to run Nextcloud, Immich, Minecraf etc. on my Mini-PC (N97 - 16GB ram - 512GB SSD) I'll possibly add TrueNAS later, but would need to upgrade the storage/hardware.
I'm trying to figure out where to start, and looking for guides and good ideas.
Knock knock
Recommended Mail Host for Nextcloud?
I'm moving away from google etc.
I'm hosting Nextcloud through hetzner, but I need a Mail Host, I've looked at a few options but haven't really found anything great.
I don't want to be locked into a vendor again, so ideally I want something where if I want I could easily move.
I might just go with Hetzner but is their spam filtering, calendars etc. good? (I eventually want to move my whole family over, so it needs to be solid and reliable)
Any recommendations/suggestions?
Advice needed for setting up my first NAS
I've recently gotten into homelabs I've got a Mini-PC running Immich and Home-Assistant
I'd like to setup a NAS for the Immich server to save media to.
I'm very new to the game and only recently started looking into this.
One requirement for me is it must be Open-Source. TrueNAS?
What hardware would you recommend? Having 2TB for now with the ability to expand it would be great, a small size would also be ideal.