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Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
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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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[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 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

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] w2qw@aussie.zone 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.

[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] snake@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Hmm hosted in Germany that’s not reassuring.