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‘Fastly and Cloudflare are (typically) proxy CDN services that people use for speed and/or DDoS mitigation, so we are not actually seeing where the data is being stored, only who is fronting the site itself.

So we will have to get creative in getting the true hosting providers. By convincing the fediverse to talk to us!’ – @benjojo

Uses the ActivityPub public key fetch during http signature flow to get the underlying server IP - love it

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances