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Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:

lemmy.world: 19516
lemm.ee: 3779
lemmy.ml: 2970
sh.itjust.works: 2355
feddit.de: 2293

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

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This was asked in the lemm.ee discord and the answer given is below.

Ping times are low everywhere because the files we serve are hosted on globally distributed servers. So if you're in North America, you will download the frontend code (and images etc) from a North American server. But the backend is actually hosted in Germany

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

"were using a rock bottom VPS out of germany with cloudlfare"

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

Do you know if personal data (like emails, IP addresses) is also distributed across the world? I mean, this is important from the privacy perspective. Different countries have different rules.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's just using cloudflare. So likely your private data is just temporarily stored on the CloudFlare node in your region and in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Frankly I have absolutely no idea, I would encourage asking if you're concerned though.

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

So which country's laws apply to user generated content?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Hmm hosted in Germany that’s not reassuring.