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minus-square@drrlvnlinkEnglish65•1 year agoI might be out of the loop so I’m genuinely curious - what’s wrong with Cloudflare? The post mentions several times that it isn’t popular and that an alternative will be found.
minus-square@orangeboatslink86•1 year agoIt’s the fear of centralization, I believe (correct me if I’m wrong!). Seeing that the whole point of federation is to decentralize the web, putting everything under the Cloudflare umbrella goes against this philosophy.
minus-squaredeweydecibellinkEnglish30•1 year agoThe federation philosophy is not going to hold up when users centralize themselves on an instance, requiring that instance to seek out things like Cloudflare just to bare the weight.
minus-square@nicoweiolink61•1 year agoMaybe it’s about Cloudflare becoming a single point of failure for large parts of the internet?
minus-square@[email protected]BlinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=GEbn3nHyKnA https://piped.video/watch?v=DDe-S3uef2w Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
I might be out of the loop so I’m genuinely curious - what’s wrong with Cloudflare?
The post mentions several times that it isn’t popular and that an alternative will be found.
It’s the fear of centralization, I believe (correct me if I’m wrong!).
Seeing that the whole point of federation is to decentralize the web, putting everything under the Cloudflare umbrella goes against this philosophy.
The federation philosophy is not going to hold up when users centralize themselves on an instance, requiring that instance to seek out things like Cloudflare just to bare the weight.
Maybe it’s about Cloudflare becoming a single point of failure for large parts of the internet?
Yep.
And yep again.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=GEbn3nHyKnA
https://piped.video/watch?v=DDe-S3uef2w
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Iirc it can break federation