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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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 15 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Durotar@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

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.