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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Why great news!

As an American I applaud this move

Sorry to hear the update, but perhaps you can gently tug Deflect to hopefully expand to Metro Van or Alberta.

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.

Uh, i'm mostly confused why ther'es both a lemmy and a piefed when they do the same thing. Do I need to care about piefed.ca?

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.