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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No. It’s hosted in Finland. Ruud is Dutch, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right, I must've gotten that mixed up. Still, Ruud is based in the Netherlands and I'm not sure how the hosting laws work across country borders. Strangely enough, the-federation.info lists lemmy.world as hosted in the United States...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I asked about that a while ago and apparently it has to do with a VPN or something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they use CloudFlare so it would look like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Although he posted that he had to follow strict German anti piracy laws 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because the company with the servers in Finland is German.