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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.

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

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

I didn't notice anything on feddit.uk

Piefed was down. Or at least piefed.social.

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

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.

lemmus.org was online the entire 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

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

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

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

While you were away I was browsing cloudflare memes

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

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

Startrek.website :)

mine was

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.

Most.

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

sopuli.xyz was fine.

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

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.

Mine was. And ran better than ever because it didn't have to handle so many updates anymore. I missed the memes though, because the images weren't loading.

Surprisingly, lemmy.sdf.org. was up… not that SDF would use cloud flare.

discuss.tchncs.de was fine.