Infrastructure nerd, gamer, and Lemmy.ca maintainer
I’m caching less to keep the load off piefed, and more to keep the load off our network connection and improve performance for users. Unfortunately nginx won’t help with that. Also though I know it’s trivial to get our origin IP if you’re determined, it helps avoid the casual ddos attacks.
Lol I noticed that too, but it just seems to be the captcha.
Same for us, deflect. If you’re looking for a good Canadian provider https://easydns.com/ is solid. We do our domain registration through https://www.canspace.ca/ and I think they also offer some DNS.
As in active users each day? I don’t have that query written but if I remember I’ll look in the next couple days
5M seems really high, we’re at 7.8M but I’ve become pretty aggressive about blocking bots / scrapers from China
We’re a registered non-profit in Canada though - https://deflect.ca/non-profits/
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.
It’s free for non profits, also our traffic is pretty minimal in the grand scheme of things.
I can’t speak for your stuff though 😂
Not that I know of, and I don’t think that’s the direction they’re going with it.
TIL. Yeah that’s just lazy design then
I get the complaint, but if you don’t accept any cookies then they can’t remember that you refuse to accept cookies. It’s a catch-22
I don’t think anything about politics can disappoint me at this point 😂 😭
I wasn’t thinking about the loss, but more so the lack of a reasonable response to Trump. He’s still stuck on basic 3 word slogans instead of having any real strategy, unless I just haven’t seen it.
This one surprised me, I expected him to be out…
If Fedecan funding ever ceases to pay the bills, is there a plan in place, or does it shut down?
Realistically it would probably just shut down, but our donations are more than covering our expenses at the moment and the site is still growing. I don’t have any concerns about not being able to pay the bills. The site only costs us about $200/mo to run so it’s not a huge amount, but I’ll admit it’s only that low due to my donating a server worth around $40k (when it was new, although it’d be like $80k today thanks to ram prices).
May I suggest looking at government grants and funding if they don’t interfere with your goal and operations, especially now, the government is looking to boost Canadian enterprise.
Honestly, that sounds like a lot of work 😂 I’m not keen on spending time writing up business growth docs and having meetings, my day job has enough of that for me. If someone else comes along and wants to join the org + help drive that then we’d probably be open to it, but we’ve all got busy lives and it’s not a priority for us.
do those working with Fedecan pay themselves for their work?
Nope. It’s something we’ve discussed, but for now we’re all on board with keeping things lightweight and not trying to turn this into wikipedia with regular fund raisers to pay salaries.
I left reddit during the first big API debacle exodus and joined lemmy.ca, around that time Smorks was tired of running the site all himself so I offered my help. Otter and MP3 joined shortly after to help administer everything.
As we took things over I wasn’t comfortable taking donations without a proper non-profit in place, hence Fedecan was born. Big thanks to otter for putting in most of the work around it. We used to be hosted on OVH but after a big outage I donated some beefy server grade hardware to run us on, and we’re in a datacenter in Vancouver now.
Monthly bills (hosting, domain reg, non-profit related stuff) are fully paid for by donations. We have no other funding and no affiliations to any other groups. We don’t take any payment for running this, all our time is volunteered.
https://lemmy.ca/post/47466646 is a bit old now but has some more data about our donations / sites / infrastructure. There’s several links at the top to more details as well. We’re due for another big status update post but it might take me a bit to get to.
You can use either, they’re both under active development and we maintain both instances. Many people prefer piefed, I personally have stuck with Lemmy. Lemmy makes up much more of our user base still compared to Piefed.
I personally use Thunder on android and I quite like it, but I don’t know what’s popular in the ios world. It looks like it’s available for IOS too, but I can’t speak to the quality of it on there - https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/thunder-for-lemmy/id6450518497
piefed.ca hasn’t had any outages since this morning, what were you seeing?
You only need to sign up for one instance, they all see each others content. Think of it more like email - you wouldn’t sign up for both gmail.com and hotmail.com
For example these two both show the same community which is hosted over at lemmy.world:
https://lemmy.ca/c/technology@lemmy.world vs https://piefed.ca/c/technology@lemmy.world
Lemmy.ca and piefed.ca are both run by us (fedecan) and are just different software platforms to interact with the fediverse. Lemmy was the first big popular one and is written in Rust, but Piefed came along more recently and is written in Python (hence the Pie in it’s name). Piefed has been quicker about adding features, and many people have issues with the politics of the Lemmy developers. Ultimately they both let you interact with all the same communities and posts.
Otter put a nice doc together at https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started which has some pictures that might help you understand it all. It can be a little confusing at first!
Yeah it’s something I’d like to do too, but I’m currently pretty busy between day job and my various projects. Will try to put something together in the next few weeks.
Many (crows, racoons, probably more) will use water to soften food, which is kinda similar. Control of fire I think is too difficult for proper cooking.