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I've just completed moving lemmy.ca and piefed.ca away from using Cloudflare's proxy service, this means traffic now comes directly from our server instead of being routed through any US based companies. Pixelfed.ca is still on deflect.ca for the moment.

Let me know please if you run into any problems or errors!

Note that in order to avoid making too many major changes at once, our DNS is still hosted by cloudflare. I'll be moving that away from them later this week

Fedecan (lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca) will be moving away from Cloudflare in c/main@lemmy.ca

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Both give you the same content, but the software stacks are very different. There's also significant political differences between the Lemmy devs and the piefed dev. You can view the same content on both, and many mobile clients support both.

The world’s largest light installation shines on a small Australian town in c/goodnewseveryone@piefed.social

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not hard at all, it stated right in the article:

running over three weekends until 29 March

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Season 4: Classic Episodes, New Experiments, And What To Expect in c/StarfleetHQ@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Overall it's decent. I personally feel they've had far too many fun / goofy episodes given the low episode count per season, buts it's worth watching.

So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Some theaters have closed captioning done via a backwards display at the back of the theater, you wear special glasses or something that have mirrors. I think some may also do alternate languages.

how is lemmy funded? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 days ago

Donations

Fedecan (lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca) will be moving away from Cloudflare in c/main@lemmy.ca

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

They're depending on VPS providers and as far as I know there just aren't any good DDoS resilient ones out west. They also don't have anycast or geodns, so which node you hit is just a dice roll. Unfortunately there's just no good competition to cloudflare.

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Carney announces Canada bringing back EV incentives for consumers | CBC (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week 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/

Update Feb 16: pixelfed has been migrated to deflect

Update Feb 20: I'm working with deflect on improving performance before migrating lemmy / piefed over. Currently pixelfed load times aren't great due to traffic often hitting edge nodes way out in Europe

Update Mar 17: Unfortunately performance with Deflect isn't where I want it to be since their nodes are out East and our server is in Vancouver. As a result we're just going to be dropping the CDN altogether and hosting directly off our server. I'm planning to do the switchover this weekend (March 20-22), but in the meantime you can use https://test.lemmy.ca/ or https://test.piefed.ca/ if you'd like to bypass Cloudflare.

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My fur factory (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/dogs@lemmy.world

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