"i wonder if it's down for everyone or just me. Let me check the... uh... umm...."
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I love how they assume if cloud flare is down that it means you have blocked it lol
Good thing cloudflare is only used on half of all websites, otherwise this would be a major outage! Let's keep centralizing our services though!
Yeah everyone I know, including myself, got this message today.
Its such a bad idea to centralize the web like this. But its anyway turning into Ai generated shit isnt it, probably will be easier to stop using it once its all AI.
I have this hope, that with all the AI garbage and shit social media algorithms, that there will be some kind of rebirth, where a new type of internet will look somewhat more like it did in the late 90s and early 2000s. Maybe through tor or something similar. It will be niche again, for techies and geeks and smart funny creative people. The normies can stick to Twitter and TikTok and Netflix and whatever corporate garbage. Maybe tor and the fediverse will play roles in this rebirth. Or maybe I’m just being too optimistic.
I mean I feel like the fediverse is already unappealing to the “normies” so we kind of have that already to some extent
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a new type of internet will look somewhat more like it did in the late 90s
I can remember in 1998 my mom showing my aunt what the internet was. My mom says "You can even chat with the president! I was talking in a chatroom last night with Bill Clinton!"
Then she pulls up www.whitehouse.com.
Now I haven't been there in decades, but back in 1998 that website was a porn website where they had a bill clinton imposter porn actor, and an imposter porn actress for Hillary and one for Monica.
As soon as the page starts loading, my mom screams, and sends 14 year old me out of the room.
Apperently the night before she went to whitehouse.gov. Which is a TOTALLY different site.
I never did find out what chatroom she really went to, and who she was talking to.
That would be great, but this new Internet will somehow need to be able to accurately detect and block AI generated content.
My guess is that the new social media will be people physically going to established common areas in their communities and talking to each other in person, face to face, which has it's pros and cons.
Got some lovely messages from my home monitoring :)
You using them instead of Google for DNS?
Cloudflare as DNS and proxy.
But also some other I monitor for connection issues.
Edit:
Literally got spammed so much by the telegram monitoring that I muted it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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That's like the Red Dwarf episode where Kryten says "The damage reporting machine is damaged!"
That was Cat.
My favourite part of that scene though is when Rimmer says "We've lost it."Huge explosion "Sorry, I was looking at the wrong panel"
This was surprisingly the best technology premonition in the whole show. I've lost count of the number of times I've said "Sorry I was looking at the wrong screen."
"Go to red alert!"
"Are you sure Sir? That does mean changing the bulb"
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We need isdowndetectordown.com.
Don't you mean downdetectordowndetector.com?
Wouldn't it be downdowndetectordetector.com?
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Dontcha think!?
It's like rain . . .
Yeah, I really do think
The circle is complete
Its actually cloudflare.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/cloudfare-outage-november-2025-x-chatgpt
Blahaj zone is down too, presumably anything that routes traffic through CF.
Editing later to clarify because I noticed this comment made some implications: Obviously it wasn't just blahaj that was down, I'm sure plenty of other instances were too. I saw someone mention one of the austrailian ones as well. Blahaj was the one I noticed since I subscribe to a lot of their comms in my feed. This comment was not meant to throw shade at them for using Cloudflare.
Ive been using blahaj fine for past several hours with no issues
I couldn't view any content hosted on blahaj, kept getting a CF http 500 error. Poats that had already federated out were fine but links back to uploaded content were all broken.
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Maybe it's just your browser. We can't be sure that it's down until we check it on downdetector.
I see what you did there.
I touched grass today.
pretty smart putting that thing behind cloudflare as a single point of failure
I saw that too this morning. It's indicative of the state of modern computing, ie I don't understand a thing anymore.
Could it be DNS?
Possibly, but there was a major cloudflare outage today that probably caused it.
I haven't seen anything specific, but Cloudflare says its "global network" is down (regional networks are fine).
So yeah, maybe DNS like AWS.
impossible! I checked!
Did you try restarting it?
yea it's cloudflare having weird issues. it's affected tons of websites.
It's really too bad they have amassed this much power. It's not what the internet was meant to be.
CloudFlare has pioneered Crap Usability As a Service (CUAAS).
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Cloudflare is down, yes
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