We seriously need to differentiate servers, otherwise the decentralization is useless.

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    9 hours ago

    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.