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Someone in another post showed a decent site that shows cloudflare dependency, so I threw the top 35 actives from observer into it. It's honestly not as bad as I expected it would be, but it is concerning.

dbzer0 was not affected and even had a post about it.

mine was

Everything looked fine to me. I'm on mander.xyz

I didn't notice anything on feddit.uk

Piefed was down. Or at least piefed.social.

I just moved my instance off of cloudflare, you’re all welcome to make an account here!

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.

I'm pretty sure fedia.io was up the whole time

This other post has some discussion: https://lemmy.ca/post/55386786

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.

Here is a screenshot that @straycatstrut@discuss.tchncs.de took during the outage

lemmus.org was online the entire time.

Everything was down for me. Lemmy.ca using Voyager.

https://beehaw.org/post/23261600

sopuli.xyz and fedia.io both stayed up for me

Slrpnk worked, I had to use that during the outage.

While you were away I was browsing cloudflare memes

sopuli.xyz was fine.

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

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.

Startrek.website :)

Most.

• piefed.social - down
• lemmy.world - down
• slrpnk.net - up
• mastodon.social - up

sh.itjust.works was down during it as well.

discuss.tchncs.de was fine.

Not Lemmy, but piefed.social was offline due to Cloudflare.

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

You can monitor instance downtime at:

https://lestat.org/

feddit.dk was unaffected.

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.