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10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:

lemmy.world: 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users
lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users
beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users
sh.itjust.works: 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users
feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users
lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users
lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users
lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users
lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users
programming.dev: 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is surprising. A month ago they were Canadian servers, @smorks@lemmy.ca moved it to lunanode (Canadian). ~~Perhaps CDN was moved or the whole machine was moved to a cheaper hosting platform since it got very big from then and is under new admin management as of a week ago-ish.~~

Edit: found the answer from @Shadow@lemmy.ca, TL:DR is CloudFlare

Correct! The server running this and all data is stored in Canada.

Here's a blurb from a doc I'm working on:

Lemmy.ca is hosted in Canada at OVH in Beauharnois, QC with all data on a dedicated server. Backups are PGP encrypted and pushed to the OVH backup service, however these will be moved off-site in the near future.

We use Cloudflare as a security and performance layer in front of the server. They accept the traffic for Lemmy.ca through a worldwide network of ingestion points, scrub it of abusive traffic, cache the images, and pass it through an encrypted tunnel to our server. This means they can see in plain text the data sent between us including your credentials, posts, comments and images. You can read more about their policies at https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/.