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submitted 11 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 56 points 11 months ago (17 children)

Quite a few lemmy instances became inaccessible, including piefed.world.

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  • [–] 47 points 11 months ago* (13 children)

    Someone shared this with me earlier

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    The funny thing is that the Lemmy nodes are synchronized with each other, and to calculate the real address of any Federation node, it is enough to raise a node, write a comment in the interested node, and then reply to yourself from that node. Done. Real IP in you node logs. However, everyone continues to use Cloudflare... This will only protect you from technically illiterate people.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    The point of cloudflare isn't just to hide your real IP. It's the caching, bot scrape protection, etc.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    And an ai slop trainer blocker, which is a fucking godsend.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah. I'm going to figure out another solution but this is a big one.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    And all this is done with a single entry in hosts after receiving the real address. After all, knowing the real address, the bot doesn't have to go through cloudflare. The only good argument is caching, and it can be implemented independently. I find it strange to give all the traffic, including authorization, to cloudflare decrypt for the sake of caching.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Plus side of being federated is it's easy to just switch to one of your alts on another instance and still be able to use it.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but I imagine federation between instances will be all messed up. Like if .world is not reachable, then federation between world and whatever other instance you use will get out of sync. But I’m not a server admin so I’m just guessing 

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Only until they come back online and resync. I don't know the guts of the process, so I don't know what pitfalls there may be, but I'm pretty sure it's designed to handle temporary outages without requiring intervention.

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