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Fedecan (lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca) will be moving away from Cloudflare (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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With the recent willingness of the US Government to pressure its tech agencies into revealing user data without a proper judicial warrant, we've decided it's overdue for us migrate away from Cloudflare.

We'll be transitioning our sites over to https://deflect.ca/ over the next week or so, starting with pixelfed first before doing lemmy and piefed.

I hope to be able to do this without any noticeable downtime, but it is a major config change that will require some backend changes as well. I'll make an announcement before/after and you can always check https://status.fedecan.ca/

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[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This seems sensible, but does have some edges...

Like, if I use my phone at home, and out and about on cell, and at work, and at my in-laws, and at the library, then that's at least 5 "users" from one user as I change IPs.

And if I'm on Tor, who knows how many users I count as, but definitely a lot more than 1.

So I get what they're trying to do... but I don't think it'll work out fairly...

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

And if I'm behind NAT everyone who is behind it counts as one.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

On the other hand with cgnat deployments being common on mobile devices and lower end isps, they would end up underreporting on those users.

Overall it does seem tricky. Billing per legit request or mbit would make more sense to me.