Someone in another post showed a decent site that shows cloudflare dependency, so I threw the top 35 actives from observer into it. It’s honestly not as bad as I expected it would be, but it is concerning.
It looks like that source also didn’t list hexbear.net, which seems to be around the 5th or 6th largest Lemmy instance, at 1.57k monthly active users. Results from the site you linked (thanks, by the way) say that they use Cloudflare for DNS but not for CDN/Proxy/SSL.
Hexbear and lemmynsfw aren’t listed on fedidb either, which leads me to believe that they must block whatever discovery mechanism is being used by these fedi stats sites.
Someone in another post showed a decent site that shows cloudflare dependency, so I threw the top 35 actives from observer into it. It’s honestly not as bad as I expected it would be, but it is concerning.
Lemmy
lemmy.world(Active Users: 14512): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
sh.itjust.works(Active Users: 2509): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
lemmy.ml(Active Users: 2087): Cloudflare? No
lemmy.zip(Active Users: 1704): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
lemmy.dbzer0.com(Active Users: 1444): Cloudflare? No
lemmy.ca(Active Users: 1381): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
lemmygrad.ml(Active Users: 972): Cloudflare? No
lemmy.blahaj.zone(Active Users: 956): Cloudflare? No
programming.dev(Active Users: 929): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
discuss.tchncs.de(Active Users: 778): Cloudflare? No
sopuli.xyz(Active Users: 596): Cloudflare? No
slrpnk.net(Active Users: 371): Cloudflare? No
infosec.pub(Active Users: 331): Cloudflare? No
lemmy.today(Active Users: 314): Cloudflare? No
midwest.social(Active Users: 307): Cloudflare? No
reddthat.com(Active Users: 292): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
feddit.nl(Active Users: 290): Cloudflare? No
pawb.social(Active Users: 243): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
forum.guncadindex.com(Active Users: 234): Cloudflare? No
mander.xyz(Active Users: 194): Cloudflare? No
lemmings.world(Active Users: 177): Cloudflare? No
ani.social(Active Users: 173): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
feddit.it(Active Users: 158): Cloudflare? No
startrek.website(Active Users: 156): Cloudflare? No
feddit.dk(Active Users: 151): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,cname)
leminal.space(Active Users: 126): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
ttrpg.network(Active Users: 125): Cloudflare? No
szmer.info(Active Users: 116): Cloudflare? No
lemmy.eco.br(Active Users: 99): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,proxy,cname)
lemy.lol(Active Users: 97): Cloudflare? Yes(dns,cname)
awful.systems(Active Users: 90): Cloudflare? No
It looks like that source also didn’t list hexbear.net, which seems to be around the 5th or 6th largest Lemmy instance, at 1.57k monthly active users. Results from the site you linked (thanks, by the way) say that they use Cloudflare for DNS but not for CDN/Proxy/SSL.
Hexbear and lemmynsfw aren’t listed on fedidb either, which leads me to believe that they must block whatever discovery mechanism is being used by these fedi stats sites.
Yea that would make sense, if that endpoint is blocked then it wouldn’t be added.
I think you missed the second biggest instance (at least it was a while back.)
lemmynsfw.com is using Cloudflare DNS, CDN/Proxy
Edit:
Also noticed:
checkforcloudflare.selesti.com is using Cloudflare DNS, CDN/Proxy.
I used observer and sorted by active users, so maybe fediverse observer doesn’t host the instance due to the NSFW? idk