10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000
10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000
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
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How is lemmy.ca not in Canada?
We're just behind cloudflare, the server itself and all us admins are Canadian.
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/.
That seems plausible.
Found the answer.. Edited my comment to include it.
Nice to see my curiosity helped others :D
Hold on, is it not? Checking....
EDIT: Weird that it is private... But I guess that's fine since they're using a CDN... https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy.ca
Happy to see that my instance shows up! https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy.fancywhale.ca
The great Canadian-Dutch war. 4 people were injured and Kevin's mom made pizza pops for everyone after.
That is very odd! The content certainly seems to be Canadian, though.