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[-] ryantown@lemmy.world 273 points 1 month ago

Character.ai being mentioned in the same line is a sign of the times.

[-] simple@piefed.social 115 points 1 month ago

The people yearn for the digital anime waifus

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 117 points 1 month ago

If you're not running your waifu on a local machine she's just a digital prostitute.

[-] insomniac20k@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago

The one downvote on this comment makes it like 20x funnier

[-] tal@lemmy.today 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When you stop using a search engine and use AI-generated responses for everything, I guess having your LLM backends go down could qualify as having a disruptive functional impact.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

A disruption to disfunctional search engines does not sound bad.

[-] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 month ago

Well, the actual headline is:

Massive internet outage: Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify all down, users report

Character.ai is only mentioned in the lengthy list of services that are down.

[-] ryantown@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

Massive internet outage reported: Google, Cloudflare, Twitch all down

It even swapped in Twitch when I read it at the time. Headlines be changing.

[-] Uli@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago

And when I went there, it said Google, Cloudflare, and Frank's Dildo Emporium all down, like of all the random sites, why pick FDE?

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[-] The_Worst@feddit.nl 25 points 1 month ago

What is character.ai? Have I been living under a stone? When I visit the page I have to log in just to learn what it is?

[-] match@pawb.social 25 points 1 month ago
[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

... What's ERP? Or don't I want to know?

[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 month ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago

Enterprise resource planning

[-] errer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Erotic resource planning

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[-] SnotFlickerman 18 points 1 month ago

My front-line guess is "Erotic Role Play" but I am not familiar with character.ai

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[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 128 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ohh that's why everything is slow and this is my sanity check.

But its scary how if Cloudflare went down most popular websites will go down with it

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 59 points 1 month ago
[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
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[-] ernest314@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago
[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 40 points 1 month ago

It blocks anyone not using one of its preferred browsers, among other things. It's become the gatekeeper for a large fraction of the Internet.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago

It also flags my DNS filter and nearly every site I go to has to "check if I'm human"

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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 1 month ago

He is not wrong. Look the whole internet is basically one centralized cloudflare if we continue this path.

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[-] justlemmyin@lemmy.world 93 points 1 month ago

Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?

[-] tal@lemmy.today 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think that at least some instances use Cloudflare for various things, so depending upon what and how much stuff at Cloudflare is broken, some lemmy instances may be impacted.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 month ago
[-] Shirasho@lemmings.world 12 points 1 month ago

Nowadays they will tell you to work on something else in the meantime.

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[-] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 63 points 1 month ago
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[-] SnotFlickerman 59 points 1 month ago

*Laughs in self-hosting services.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago

I wish I had that luxury with work.

All my personal stuff is 100% unaffected though!

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[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 month ago

I actually enjoy when this happens. All this centralized shit will not end well.

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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 47 points 1 month ago

Another reason to self host 😊

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

I’m pretty sure cloudflare has better uptime than you

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[-] cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago

I do agree , the web needs to be decentralized, but does your server have similar uptime to cloudflare.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago
[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 month ago

No but then the argument above falls flat, doesn't it?

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 38 points 1 month ago

At work just about all major services are super slow or down. It's like cloud strike again.

Oh well I still get paid. But it's crazy how much centralization affects the world wide web.

[-] SnotFlickerman 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It’s like cloud strike again

When The Cloud goes on Strike. Damn it they're just asking for more power, Scotty! Don't let those scabs cross the picket line!

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 month ago

Honestly, I didn't even notice.

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 36 points 1 month ago

We need to break up Cloudflare.

[-] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

It sucks because up until the "sales team" rugpull, they're the cheapest (and closest to reality) for bandwidth cost, virtually all the other CDN providers charge astronomical prices and their margins are hundreds to thousands of percentage.

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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 1 month ago

We just should not use cloudflare. Why is everybody still trying to use cloudflare.

It drives me nuts. The default answer on all network problems: why don't you just use cloudflare? No! No no.

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[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago

Dafuq is a character.ai and why is it in the same list as google and cloudflare? Like yea my local grocery store had some issues should that be on the list too?

[-] skrlet13@feddit.cl 11 points 1 month ago

An AI chatbot that pretends to be a character and you roleplay with it.

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[-] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 31 points 1 month ago

c/selfhosted having a field day rn

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

Uh huh, just before a major democracy attacked an evil, evil country. Must be coincidence.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago
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