what does that have to do with decentralization? fuck cloud fare but is the argument that Lemmy instances shouldn’t try to protect their servers against attacks?
Well yeah… until frontends (instance) can be decentralized and requests sent to fragmented multiple hosts, this is how it works. One centralized frotend, connected to a more federated backend. Afaik, federation traffic should probably not go through cloudflare, but I’m no expert on that, maybe .world admins can comment.
Use a different instance to access the network.Y’all a bunch of babies. Just block the instance or make your own if you care so much
Its their instance, let them ruin it in whichever way they prefer. Dont like it? Block it.
That’s why I blocked sh.itjust.wor*)^%#(NO_CARRIER
sh.itjust.works was down too. I just switched instances which is the point. It’s not supposed to fail over, it just can’t be taken down because there are more instances. I sure wish my client could auto fail over to one of my other accounts grab posts though.
sh.itjust.works was down too
I sure wish my client could auto fail over to one of my other accounts grab posts though.
I mean, in theory, the folks admining .world could create their own fail-over. But hosting costs money and redundancy costs even more money and this continues to be - at its heart - a labor of love by a handful of charitable admins, not an enterprise level app looking to maximize uptime for revenue.
To get Fediverse to switch instances or substitute a working mirror, you’d have to pivot away from the inherently decentralized nature of the application. At a minimum, you’d need an endpoint that worked as a switch between communities.
Like, its possible, in the same way Torrents have a single entry point that ties out to a semi-unreliable cluster of hosters. But it is not (to my knowledge) how Fediverse is currently designed.
That’s why it’s called “federated” and nont “decentralized”
Freenet/Hyphanet is I think too slow for modern internet users. P2P networks have always struggled with solving the service lookup and access problem.
Even advancements like DHTs or cheat methods like trackers will still only get you so far compared to plain old client server DNS.
Bruh.
While a traditional social networking service will host all its content on servers managed by the owner of the website, the decentralized structure of the Fediverse allows any individual or organization to host a social platform using their own servers…. [Source]
(Emphasis mine)
Oh lol, guess they inflated its capabilities ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Federation by its very nature is the very definition of decentralized. My best guess is that you’re conflating high availability (e.g. fail over servers, or round robin, or something else where when one server goes down, another kicks in as a backup but still on the same domain) with federation.
~No shade btw.~
I like the centralized and understandable moderation of this larger space.
The smaller communities are basically little fiefdoms where you can follow the rules, but if the mods still don’t like you, then you get banned with no appeal process.
This is why you can spin up your own personal lemmy instance as a backup to use if your main goes down.
That’s not how fediverse decentration works. =P
