This list seems curated, there are some huge servers missing, so the author probably decided to include whatever they thought was notable to them.
petunia
joined 1 year ago
It depends on the software. Some proxy all content from remote servers so you only connect to your home server (Mastodon). Others don't, instead they make clients load remote content themselves (Lemmy). If you use browser client you can see all the connections being made.
Some EU agencies are already on top of this. They host a Mastodon instance under the actual EU top-level domain name to make it actually verifiably official. https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission
PaperWM really should be its own DE. It's so good, almost perfect, but held back by its nature of merely being a GNOME extension.