Which laws apply to the fediverse?

Every tracker in this space publishes one country per server. For much of the network there is no such thing — and where there is, it often is not the one the domain name implies. This observatory resolves hosting independently, reads what each operator says about its own governing law, and publishes the disagreement instead of hiding it.

Jurisdiction is not a partition

A server counts towards every jurisdiction it has a link with, so these columns deliberately do not sum to the network. 5,892 servers link to more than one country, and 8,730 have two or more tied on equal evidence — for those, no primary country is recorded, because inventing one would be the error this project exists to document.

All jurisdictions →

What the servers actually carry

Posts per week, from each server's own twelve-week activity series. A better measure than monthly actives, which counts anyone who logged in without posting.

Who is accountable

Registration records answer "who runs this domain" for 34 of these servers. Everything else is redacted or unanswered, and 24,887 share an address with another server — many are customers of a handful of managed hosts rather than independent operators.

Infrastructure and accountability →