▲ 877 ▼ Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago* by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 178 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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
[–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (2 children) Where's lemm.ee located physically? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Navarian@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 2 years ago "were using a rock bottom VPS out of germany with cloudlfare" permalink fedilink source parent [–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] w2qw@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Navarian@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Frankly I have absolutely no idea, I would encourage asking if you're concerned though. permalink fedilink source parent [–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago So which country's laws apply to user generated content? permalink fedilink source parent [–] snake@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago Hmm hosted in Germany that’s not reassuring. permalink fedilink source parent [+] MicroWave@lemmy.world [S] 7 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 2 years ago "were using a rock bottom VPS out of germany with cloudlfare" permalink fedilink source parent [–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] w2qw@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Navarian@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Frankly I have absolutely no idea, I would encourage asking if you're concerned though. permalink fedilink source parent [–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago So which country's laws apply to user generated content? permalink fedilink source parent [–] snake@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago Hmm hosted in Germany that’s not reassuring. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 2 years ago "were using a rock bottom VPS out of germany with cloudlfare" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] w2qw@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Navarian@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Frankly I have absolutely no idea, I would encourage asking if you're concerned though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] w2qw@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Frankly I have absolutely no idea, I would encourage asking if you're concerned though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago So which country's laws apply to user generated content? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] snake@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago Hmm hosted in Germany that’s not reassuring. permalink fedilink source parent
