162
Character.ai being mentioned in the same line is a sign of the times.
The people yearn for the digital anime waifus
If you're not running your waifu on a local machine she's just a digital prostitute.
The one downvote on this comment makes it like 20x funnier
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.
A disruption to disfunctional search engines does not sound bad.
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.
Massive internet outage reported: Google, Cloudflare, Twitch all down
It even swapped in Twitch when I read it at the time. Headlines be changing.
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?
load more comments
(3 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
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?
It's LLMs for ERP
... What's ERP? Or don't I want to know?
I put on my robe and wizard hat
My front-line guess is "Erotic Role Play" but I am not familiar with character.ai
I had guessed the nature of the site and "roleplay." It is a tad silly on my part to not have guessed "erotic"; thanks for getting me there (and not in an erotic way).
edit: Had left out the word "there."
I remember the day I went why are we all selfhosting and still relying on a site like Cloudflare?.
I'm glad I agreed with me on it.
I've migrated about half of my services off of cloudflare DNS proxy. Guess which half still worked this afternoon. (Self hosting pangolin with CrowdSec as replacement). I wasn't even using the cloudflare tunnel. Just their proxy for some bot mitigation.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(4 replies)
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
Cloudflare is a cancer
Most people who dislike cloudflare do so for their centralization of the internet, rightly so.
Me? I HATE THE STUPID "VERIFYING YOUR REQUEST" PROMPTS. THEY TAKE WAYYY TOO LONG AND DONT WORK WITH MY USER AGENT SWITCHER. STUPID WEBSITES WITH 3 MONTHLY USERS ARE TURNING ON ADVANCED "DDOS PROTECTION" JUST TO MAKE EVERY FUNCTION OF THEIR APP TAKE 18 MONTHS
load more comments
(2 replies)
tell me more
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.
It also flags my DNS filter and nearly every site I go to has to "check if I'm human"
load more comments
(3 replies)
He is not wrong. Look the whole internet is basically one centralized cloudflare if we continue this path.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
Another reason to self host 😊
I’m pretty sure cloudflare has better uptime than you
This is dumb...
If you self host and your power goes out ...
Think about it
Maybe this guy lives in an area immune to random outages ? Never any power shutdown, internet disconnection or slowness. And his hardware never fails too 🫢
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
I do agree , the web needs to be decentralized, but does your server have similar uptime to cloudflare.
Does it need to?
No but then the argument above falls flat, doesn't it?
Honestly, I didn't even notice.
The problem was actually caused by Google Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?
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.
I actually enjoy when this happens. All this centralized shit will not end well.
*Laughs in self-hosting services.
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
162 points (97.6% liked)
Technology
74251 readers
914 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS