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The reason Mastodon (and the wider Fediverse that it is part of) doesn't go down is because all its servers are totally independent. One Fedi server might go down, but that doesn't affect the other servers at all.

That's one of the many advantages of decentralisation, that there is no central point of failure.

Centralised networks go down because they depend on one central organisation's infrastructure.

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Fedi.Tips

Ah yeah that's true, but that's why it's best to use servers that promise to give three months warning of a closedown (all the servers listed at fedi.garden and joinmastodon.org/servers promise three months warning).

Sudden closedowns are a risk for anything on the internet to be honest, which is why it's best to encourage a diverse range of online providers.

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Asterisk 🇨🇦

@project1enigma This is what Polyproto is supposed to help fix by adding a client certificate that you can use to prove your account is yours so it can be restored using activity records from other servers.
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Solar🌄Garden

I'm reading that differently: @letiuchiha is saying that BECAUSE their country blocks cloudflare whose speciality is managing large bumps in traffic like big football match audiences, when these happen, they lose connectivity BECAUSE no cloudflare, even tho the INSTANCE is still up.

pp @svavar

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Svavar the Neurospicy

@letiuchiha @wavesculptor
This is hugely problematic from multiple perspectives. It’s incredibly disappointing that the Spanish courts and government seem to be going along with this.

It’s insane how people’s rights and freedoms are being trampled on just to help a massively wealthy football tournament.

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Josh (I fight for the users!)

@svavar
Bunny is a popular CDN and alternative in my line of work.

I do get your point with Cloudflare being a single point of failure, --but-- while they've done some silly (eh, even stupid maybe?) things in the past, they typically correct their mistakes AND they are an incredibly distributed provider with more than 250 POPs across the globe.

For static pages for your fedi-site, they can even handle multiple distributed hosting.

All this is available for free.

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Josh (I fight for the users!)

@svavar
I'm not a shill for Cloudflare, nor am I a paid promoter.

"I hate cloudflare" or "I don't want to ever use Cloudflare" are both valid responses, and that's ok; my personal choice is to use them because I think they're arguably the best and the "free" cost is pretty astounding considering what you get.

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Svavar the Neurospicy

@josh
All fair points. I’ve been using them for years and they’ve been good. I’m definitely not doing it for moral reasons.

One benefit is that a different server I host at home uses IPv6 and putting it behind the Cloudflare CDN makes it accessible over IPv4.

Rather than switching to another CDN, I was wondering about hardening my server to get the same security without a CDN, or does the ability to hide my home IP and any DDoS protection make it worth sticking with a CDN?

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@nicd
I’m using Cloudflare as a security layer in front of my instance to prevent various attack vectors because I don’t trust that a stock Raspberry Pi with a standard Mastodon install is secure enough.

So I’m looking for something that would provide stronger security, like a WAF, I guess, that would stop someone from using my instance to get onto my home network.

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Nate Gullion 🏳️‍🌈

@max ​Nobody is claiming Facebook runs on one single physical server, though. FediTips specifically said centralized networks depend on one central organization's infrastructure. Facebook's thousands of servers still share a single point of failure: Meta itself. When Meta's central routing or domain fails, the whole platform goes down. Besides FediTips wasn't even making an argument that one is better than the other. They simply pointed out a benefit of decentralized services.
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@Nate Gullion 🏳️‍🌈

And I'm simply pointing out that centralised infrastructure could be designed (and the big ones actually are designed) using redundancy so as not to have any single point of failure.

If Meta central routing is build on a redundant architecture it doesn't have any single point of failure.

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