What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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Raw numbers are perhaps not enough to get across just how bad the centralisation of the Fediverse by mastodon.social is. I've done a chart to show this visually, hopefully this will make the situation clearer?

Given the circumstances, getting people to join other servers except mastodon.social would greatly help decentralise the Fediverse. It's no longer big vs medium vs small, it's more like supergiant deathstar mastodon.social vs everyone else 😞

Graph showing twelve different Mastodon servers with their percentage of the active Fediverse on the Y axis. Mastodon.social has almost 30% of active Fediverse users while all other servers have about 1% or less.

Caption under chart says "Largest Mastodon servers vs % of active Fediverse, 21st November 2025, data from FediDB.com"

Another caption next to the bar for mastodon.social says "Percentage occupied by mastodon.social is growing! It used to be less than 15%! JoinMastodon.org and official Mastodon apps are STILL promoting mastodon.social!"
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Ich bin kein großer Fan davon, Spendenaufrufe zu teilen, aber bei @netzpolitik_feednetzpolitik.org ist das etwas Anderes. In netzpolitisch unruhigen Zeiten bestechen ihre Berichte immer wieder durch vorbildliche Recherchen und hochwertigen Journalismus. Chatkontrolle, Vorratsdatenspeicherung, Netzfiltern & Co. machen ihre unabhängige Arbeit unerlässlich. Jeder Euro zählt und ist erfahrungsgemäß sehr gut investiert 💙
chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed

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found a bit surprising to hear some people consider applying to both startups and big companies at the same time a red flag. imo if you already have a range of experience and have seen both, it’s totally fine to be open to both kind of setups (and even more exotic ones)

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