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

Edit: Hmm, this graph doesn't seem to match up to the fediverse observer data, it's quite a bit lower and I'm not immediately clear why. (This is graphed off the lemmy.ca DB as federated users from piefed.ca)

Here's the same graph for piefed.social:

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.

I don't use summit, but why do you change instance? You can reply to a message using any instance that's federated with it, you don't need to use the same instance as the post. You only need one lemmy account, not one on each instance.

Often it's distributed databases like Google spanner, amazon aurora, cockroach db, etc. Google has a public whitepaper on spanner you can read.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf

I've actually saved a few garbage bags worth over the years, I want to get it spun into wool

If dogs cloned like plants, the world would be overrun with huskies and Samoyeds