I am baffled seeing so much cloudflare fanboys here...
Cloudflare is everywhere, it sees everything, it holds everything, it has private keys for tons and tons of websites, it's subject to the absence of any privacy law in the US, but they are "nice". Wow.
Google also was nice. It used to give you good results. Twitter also was nice.
This post is currently top-1 when sorting by controversial. Objectively amazing bait.
203 upvotes, 202 downvotes. The most controversial lemmy post I've ever seen
Wait.. so why is it 69/23 for me?
Federation is its own magical fuckup. Look at my comments for a recent example.
I feel like I'm making history. A real end user vs tech people conundrum.
A "people who know what cloudflare acutally does" vs "people who found the meme funny" conundrum.
I want to upvote and downvote this post.. it's so controversial
I would personally go with just downvoting. I can use discord again now so I'm not mad at cloudfare anymore.
They have a shitty way to be useful.
Honestly, I don't know how any end user who doesn't understand IT and wasn't around before services like Cloudflare were available can say this. They objectively don't have the information or experience to make the claim.
Cloudflare is solving some really big problems, right? Like DDOS?
I've been using the intermet since 2003 and have seen no difference except when cloudfare breaks.
I've been using the intermet since 2003
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Yes, the internet is much bigger than it was in 2003, and it needs more complex protective tools. The fact that you haven't noticed cloudflare when it is working is a sign that it is, well, working.
And the fact that your favorite sites aren't down more often is yet another sign. Downtime due to DDOS attacks alone would be so much greater without cloudflare than downtime due to cloudflare currently is. Your perspective is a pure lack of knowledge and an excess of confirmation bias.
In before they start hating on aws.
You are very difficult to respect.
Your respect is very difficult to care about.
That's the thing about not respecting you -- I don't value any of your opinions.
Being so willing to pontificate about something you know so little about, I don't think any one will value your opinion in this thread. At least, they shouldn't lol.
Have you ever self hosted a website? Was that a modern website, or just a bunch of text? Are you experienced with uptime SLAs on multiple services? Have you ever had to deal with a DDOS attack?
There are lots of things that Cloudflare does that requires experience and knowledge to notice or understand. And it isn't even the biggest single point of failure when it comes to the Internet. When AWS has an outage for instance there is a huge chunk of the Internet that goes down.
There are problems with the centralization of the Internet. But this happened for a reason, and it has been so long and these services have been so reliable that people don't even realize what it was like before.
I can answer that for you! No. They have never self hosted a website. In fact, I doubt they have ever connected to a website via any protocol beyond http/https. I'd bet a paycheck on it.
O.o Do you understand what Cloudflare actually does?
One more head of Hydra. Espionage System built by the big techs
I hopped in this thread then shortly thereafter got redirected to a cloudfare bad gateway page. It's a conspiracy.
don't listen to the nerds, cloudfare is trying to steal your soul and sell it to the Big Capybara industry.
Cloudflare is having some weird issues with Discord this morning.
I'd claim it's the other way around until proven otherwise. Configuring the edge is not for everyone
Literally trying to figure out if Cloudflare or tailscale would be the best way to go. The memes have spoken
Don't use memes to make decisions I'm just mad I can't use the discord app on my desktop, can't download manga from nhentai without jumping through hoops anymore, and have to solve 5 captchas in a row when I use a vpn which is all the time.
Cloudflare is excellent, this post is nonsense.
Idk, but my homelab thanks it for the free ZTN and workers.
Throwback to when 1.1.1.1 dropped and we all loved couldflare
Not all of us.
You're trying too hard
What ever bud, y'all aren't trying hard enough. I've been on the fuck CloudFlare train for ten years. Centralizing surveillance SPOF can eat a bag of dicks.