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

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    I’m no techie but if this moves us towards the light and away from the darkness then I’m all for it.

  • Slyke@lemmy.caEnglish
    54·
    16 days ago

    Post this on Reddit too, so more people come here. /r/BuyCanadian is a good sub for posting this.

    • Otter@lemmy.caMEnglish
      18·
      16 days ago

      Last I saw, they had rules against self promotion. I’m not sure if this qualifies, but at the very least we could post it in their self promotion specific thread.

  • rinze@lemmy.caEnglish
    47·
    15 days ago

    As a European (but who lived for 10 years in Montreal, that’s why I have an account here) I applaud any initiative to move digital infrastructure away from the US. Good luck.

  • VieuxQueb@lemmy.caEnglish
    37·
    16 days ago

    That’s some great news. Even without the current horrible state of the US, just CloudFlare itself is getting to be a problem anyway.

  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devEnglish
    28·
    15 days ago

    It’s very ironic for deflect to use cloudflare for their security checks when visiting their ToS.

    Other than that, it seems ok as an alternative.

  • Vex_Detrause@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    15 days ago

    Thanks for all the hard work! I totally don’t understand hosting/managing the community I bet it’s a huge task. Thank you!

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    16 days ago

    Sweet I’ve been interested in Deflect as an alternative to CF since I noticed Cory Doctorow using it on his ‘pluralistic’ website.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    14·
    15 days ago

    What are your Cloudflare metrics for unique visitors? I’d be very curious how it compares to your billing in Deflect.

    I run a small Lemmy instance and I’m showing an insane 5M unique visitors per month. I’m sure that’s mega-inflated by federations or bots though. If Deflect charged me for even a fraction of that I’d be bankrupted.