c/selfhosted having a field day rn
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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Yeah, wonder how those cloudflare(d) tunnels werd keeping up.
Dafuq is a character.ai and why is it in the same list as google and cloudflare? Like yea my local grocery store had some issues should that be on the list too?
An AI chatbot that pretends to be a character and you roleplay with it.
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Had to include something AI because of the craze, probably picked at random
It is very used actually. There's a lot of lonely people... :(
(I don't use it tho, I just yell at the void on Fedi)
Character.ai being mentioned in the same line is a sign of the times.
The people yearn for the digital anime waifus
If you're not running your waifu on a local machine she's just a digital prostitute.
The one downvote on this comment makes it like 20x funnier
When you stop using a search engine and use AI-generated responses for everything, I guess having your LLM backends go down could qualify as having a disruptive functional impact.
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Well, the actual headline is:
Massive internet outage: Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify all down, users report
Character.ai is only mentioned in the lengthy list of services that are down.
Massive internet outage reported: Google, Cloudflare, Twitch all down
It even swapped in Twitch when I read it at the time. Headlines be changing.
And when I went there, it said Google, Cloudflare, and Frank's Dildo Emporium all down, like of all the random sites, why pick FDE?
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What is character.ai? Have I been living under a stone? When I visit the page I have to log in just to learn what it is?
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Honestly, I didn't even notice.
Ohh that's why everything is slow and this is my sanity check.
But its scary how if Cloudflare went down most popular websites will go down with it
Cloudflare is a cancer
Most people who dislike cloudflare do so for their centralization of the internet, rightly so.
Me? I HATE THE STUPID "VERIFYING YOUR REQUEST" PROMPTS. THEY TAKE WAYYY TOO LONG AND DONT WORK WITH MY USER AGENT SWITCHER. STUPID WEBSITES WITH 3 MONTHLY USERS ARE TURNING ON ADVANCED "DDOS PROTECTION" JUST TO MAKE EVERY FUNCTION OF THEIR APP TAKE 18 MONTHS
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I remember the day I went why are we all selfhosting and still relying on a site like Cloudflare?.
I'm glad I agreed with me on it.
this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they
Oh, he's the best. Keeps me out of trouble, that one.
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Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?
I think that at least some instances use Cloudflare for various things, so depending upon what and how much stuff at Cloudflare is broken, some lemmy instances may be impacted.
The problem was actually caused by Google Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.
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I actually enjoy when this happens. All this centralized shit will not end well.
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Another reason to self host 😊
I do agree , the web needs to be decentralized, but does your server have similar uptime to cloudflare.
Does it need to?
No but then the argument above falls flat, doesn't it?
At work just about all major services are super slow or down. It's like cloud strike again.
Oh well I still get paid. But it's crazy how much centralization affects the world wide web.
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Uh huh, just before a major democracy attacked an evil, evil country. Must be coincidence.
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