xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

two things are certain in life: death and PHP

Can’t believe they already solved this.

I don't care if it's ironic, wojaks are ugly and shouldn't be posted

"FedNow Service Launching In July - GOODBYE FREEDOM"
https://youtu.be/0tc2yx_IoLY

@1ns0mniak @p @shuro DDoS are also pretty rare, you basically have to be a target to get them or be using some garbage software which can serve as amplification (this is why I stopped using bind).

I learned that there is a WIP fediverse project that seeks to implement forums over ActivityPub. If it matures, it would be enough to convince me away from akkoma and pleroma.

The one failing point of traditional forums IMO is that they are all siloed into their particular interest niche. Federation fixes this.

For instances that want some ddos protection, both nginx and apache have modules that help protect against ddos. There's also options like syn cookies.

I've said many times before: There's nobody coming to save us. We can only save ourselves.

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Knowledge of Google APIs is a plus. You can contact me here or on Telegram @QNeko

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Cloudflare, the internet's new single point of failure, seems very widely adopted around here. Apparently, 3,299 instances sit behind Cloudfed, 14.5% of fedi's 22,761 total instances.

The same people that think Google and Facebook are evil appear to forget how Google and Facebook got where they are, and they say "B-But it's free DDoS protection! 1.1.1.1 is free DNS upstream! They're just trying to give us nice things for free!", trying to justfiy their own part in enabling the next Google.

Remember: Cloudflare has IPO'd and valuation is about market capture: they will burn money until that 14.5% is 84.5% and then they start clamping down. This isn't some kind of theory, this isn't abstract, I didn't make this up. This *is* the strategy. It's not just the strategy, it's a legal obligation: once you have taken the VC money or you are a publicly traded company, you have a fiduciary duty to not misuse the shareholders' money. You take their money and you promise to do your damnedest to turn a profit, that's what stocks are. The hedge funds, pension funds, money market accounts that hold your stock, your board of directors, they can sue if you leave a dollar on the table, and your board will toss you out. You don't get blind-sided by this, either: if you're executing the strategy, you plan to see it through, and if you take that money, you are executing that strategy. It's already naive to put your trust in a third party, but it is completely retarded to trust a company that is publicly traded or that has taken a Series A.

Cloudfed has already hung at least three large instances out to dry, sinblr.com because FOSTA-SESTA passed, poa.st (just the media servers; API remains behind boat-clicker), and kiwifarms.cc because of a Twitter mob. Say what you will about those instances (I don't feel like anything of value was lost when KF went down), but it's a bad precedent and if it worked once, it will be used again, and you might not like the next target. If most of the web is dependent on a single service and that service is willing to censor just because some lunatics on Twitter got mad, then we are all fucked. Amazon decides not to host you and Cloudfed decides not to provide "free" MitM services and what do you think is going to happen? Using Cloudflare gives random shareholding entities and Twitter mobs veto power over what you do.

Here is a TSV of all the instances that live behind Cloudfed.
cloudfed_instances.tsv

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