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submitted 9 months ago by hddsx@lemmy.ca to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

…or GCP? …or AWS?

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[-] straycatstrut@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

While the downtime was most active, most of the top instances were down. Lemmy.ml, feddit.org, discuss.tchncs.de and behaw.org were all up. You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to browse things and the ones offline all show a "content error" in lemmyverse.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

So lemmyverse does not run on cloudflare? Then that’s a good tool next time. Thank you

[-] straycatstrut@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago

I cannot confirm that (I have nothing to do with lemmyverse), but it was/is up and functioning so my instinct is "yes, it does not use cloudflare".

I grabbed a quick screenshot hours ago showing the trauma; based on my recollection that I typed into the registration box of tchncs, these of the top 20 instances were all down: lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.dbzero.com, lemmy.zip, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, lemmy.blahaj.zone, infosec.pub, aussie.zone, readthat.com, lemmy.today. Sister sites on the piefed side (e.g. piefed.social) were also down because they're the same admins using the same tech stacks.

A lot of lemmy instances put all their eggs in one basket and found out.

[-] tux0r@feddit.org 0 points 9 months ago

Lemmyverse is Fediverse, more or less. (I posted on Lemmy with Honk before.)

[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 9 months ago

The fact that all the "normie" instances were down, but lemmy.ml was up was the funniest shit to me. I'm honestly surprised they didn't milk it more for all the shit they usually get lol

[-] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

To repeat my comment here:

https://lemmy.today/post/41970730/20432766

I mean, it's easy to check whether a given instance is using CloudFlare.

$ host lemmy.world|head -n1
lemmy.world has address 104.26.9.209
$ whois 104.26.9.209|grep ^NetName
NetName:        CLOUDFLARENET
$

You can browse anonymously on any instance that permits doing so, so if you just want to browse during an outage, you can do that anywhere.

IMHO, having an account on a second Threadiverse instance isn't necessarily a terrible idea, not just because of CloudFlare outages, but because instances do have outages for various reasons. I have an account on olio.cafe (PieFed, not on CloudFlare) and on lemmy.today (Lemmy, not on CloudFlare) because I wanted to try out PieFed, and I have fallen back to that to post before if lemmy.today has issues.

That being said, I didn't intentionally try to avoid CloudFlare. I mean, they're used by a lot of major sites, and I don't expect them to have a lot of downtime. I mean, every Threadiverse instance has had downtime for some reason or another. I've had Internet outages, as well as electricity outages. Not all that common or usually an extended thing, but they happen.

[-] tux0r@feddit.org 7 points 9 months ago

The one you host yourself.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

I considered it, but then there was the big child porn incident. I don’t want to be liable for hosting child porn if someone posts it somewhere and it federates over. If there was a way to do text only I would consider it again.

I forgot what the solution was, but it’s not a risk I want to take - and I do host many services myself.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 9 months ago

One of the reasons I'm not proxying images.

The other being that it takes too much storage.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

What does that mean? If you’re not proxying images, do you have access to images but you have to fetch them from the host instance or do you not have images at all?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They are fetched from the host instance.

[-] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

I mean, one solution would be to not allow photos on that instance. Just spitballing, because I can't think of an efficient and ethical way to go about screening image uploads, that doesn't involve some sacrificial moderator being waterboarded by human perversion.

Maybe, using AI? Can a locally hosted AI instance scan images? I might host a lemmy instance in the future, because I want to support the cause, but yeah, I ain't going to jail for it.

[-] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 4 points 9 months ago

Had no problems here on lemmus.org.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago
[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

db0 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

I don't think any run on gcp or aws, but most use cloudflare

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