Why is Cloudflare so bad?
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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Thank you for the amazing job, as always! Cloudflare is a solid solution :)
Sure but maybe something less centralized/proprietary would be preferable
Such as?
Well for now we'll have to stick around with cloudflare. I'd just would like to see something managed by a decentralized network. I don't know if it exists, it's more of a sentiment or a general idea.
I think the biggest problem with such services is that they require lots of money to run which means that any well-meaning effort will eventually end up becoming a commercial service.
...and that's where the blockchain comes in. This means that the individual contributions of the node operators can be directly recorded and compensated adequately.
β¦and thatβs where the blockchain comes in.
Sure.
Tell me a good argument why not? How would you reward those people that contribute to said netowork?
Tell me a good argument why not?
The downsides of blockchain / cryptocurrency are well documented at this point.
Yeah sure like with centralized solutions and big corpos too. What kind of argument is that?
Excellent! CDN and DDoS protection are essential. Also would recommend looking into load balancing if you havenβt.
Load balancing applications is significantly more complex than most people anticipate. In the naive implementation it typically increases database loads and reduces site performance. Static content balancing is trivial, and cloudflare will do that by default, but implementing the hard part will require careful software development to prevent a naive implementation from bringing down the database. Sticky sessions are just the beginning.
Obviously cloudflares ddosing lemmy just to get some extra money
This might not be a joke as CloudFlare employs lots of woke types that just might do that.
What do you mean by woke types?
Woke as in believing in identity politics, Marxism, the usual crap.
I hope lemmy.world can avoid using Cloudflare which goes against the spirit of Fediverse as it's just an objectively evil company.
Can you give some insight to this?
There are thousands of reasons from centralizing internet, abusing their market power, implementing barriers on web automation that can only be bypassed by the priviledged to fingerprinting and tracking users across the whole internet. It's a major for-profit market capture corporation - it's evil by design.
Yeah, they're not someone I'd choose to give money or support to. Pretty disappointed it has come to this tbh.