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non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 days agoI mean, there’s a difference between not gatekeeping when talking about cloudflare and completely waving Cloudflare’s banner on your front lawn.
- Cloudflare has full access to your traffic, and privacy is a very strong motivator for a good chunk of self-hosters.
- You might also be interested in Cloudflare’s unending string of bad actor captcha redirects that Cloudflare inexplicably won’t resolve, for all their 800lb gorilla strength in warding off DOS volumetric attacks.
- Another thing you would think Cloudflare has resolved: captcha hell.
So yeah, I wouldn’t have phrased it the way original comment was phrased, but holy cow, bro… Cloudflare is far from perfect and the people that will have existential problems with Cloudflare are very likely to be self-hosters.
foggy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m not out here to Stan for cloudflare. It’s just a totally valid tool for the job, there are valid reasons to use it, and as we agree, it’s not productive to tell a newcomer that their choice of meeting their needs is “sad”
In fact, it’s an unwelcoming thing to say. If we want folks to stop using cloud services, we can’t shame the valid paths to get there.
@foggy @non_burglar I mean
What if you just want to self-host because it's fun?
foggy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lol idk why you’re asking me!
Use whatever services make sense for your situation! 😊