We seriously need to differentiate servers, otherwise the decentralization is useless.

  • SkavauEnglish
    0•5 months ago

    Piefed was down. Or at least piefed.social.

    • mesaEnglish
      0•4 months ago

      Yeah it uses cloudflare for a number of services if I recall.

    • MalReynoldsEnglish
      0•4 months ago

      FWIW I switched VPN egress to Singapore (I have two egress points up permanently and switch with foxyproxy) and was up again immediately.

  • @DrDystopia@lemy.lol
    0•5 months ago

    My private archiving instance. But assuming there’s still no users and federtion was broken, onlineity doesn’t really matter.

  • @flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
    0•5 months ago

    sopuli.xyz didn’t have any issues. At least I could access it at any time, I don’t know if there is any lag in federation due to unavailability of other instances.

    Another important consideration is that Cloudflare outage might have been regional. Same content could be available in one region but not in another. On the Cloudflare status page they mention issues with London specifically.

  • @ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    I just think clients should auto fail over to another instance. You should be able to pull posts from somewhere else but just be unable to post. No reason we can’t pull posts though.

  • @chunes@lemmy.world
    0•5 months ago

    Say it with me again: your server does not need middlemen that can break your stuff whenever they feel like it.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]English
      0•4 months ago

      you should instead just rawdog the internet, so that some 14 year old kid with access to their parents credit card can buy a booter to knock your instance offline whenever they feel like it.

    • @tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      0•5 months ago

      So, there are a couple of reasons to use CloudFlare, but I suspect that the reason that a lot of people are doing so is to deal with DDoSes, which are hard to deal with otherwise.

      Like, my home instance, lemmy.today, doesn’t use CloudFlare, so it isn’t affected by a CloudFlare outage. But…it was also knocked offline for a few days about a month back by a DDoS.

      A lot of major sites do depend on CloudFlare, so they probably aren’t going to have a horrendous amount of downtime — like, any issue that comes up is probably gonna have a lot of engineers banging on it pretry quickly.