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Should Lemmy.ca defederate from Maga Place? (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 days ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

However, I do find it funny these "American patriots" feel they need to use Canadian servers to exercise their free speech.

Canadian servers? what do you mean? fedidb does not show server location to me

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

You're correct.

The A record for the domain name maga.place resolves to 216.144.226.200, which is under the 216.144.226.0/24 prefix of AS36352 (HostPapa). The prefix being used is registered to madgenius.com, which is a hosting provider registered in the United States. Curiously, that provider even has their own ASN (AS55154) that's not being used here.

It's also a shared IP address. The address itself resolves to suportefiscal.aptosclinica.com.br. when you perform a reverse lookup.

As for the domain name itself, a quick whois lookup points to Namecheap. The MX records corroborate this, pointing to registrar-servers.com.

In any case, the server itself is hosted in Virginia. The hosting provider used is an American company either owned by or reselling services from a Canadian company.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 14 points 3 days ago

This is a 1-day-old account and they also said "Lemmy is Canadian", so I'm presuming that they think that defederation means to remove this like it were a community.

Although even so they aren't wrong: federation with Lemmy.ca means to help spread their messages using Canadian servers:-).