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Wildebeest - A cloudflare based Fediverse server (github.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/3045

Now this is interesting. A Fediverse platform developed by Cloudflare that inherently runs on Cloudflare without needing dedicated infrastructure.

The code is open source yet the platform itself is inherently proprietary. It's going to be very interesting how this unfolds given how unpopular Cloudflare is with many Fediverse admins

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[โ€“] anova 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I'm not a fediverse admin, but I like to think that if I was I would find a way to automatically defederate with these cloudflare instances. Open source code doesn't mean anything if it can only run on proprietary infrastructure.

More abstractly, I don't feel like there's inherently anything wrong with the sort of thing, but the fact that Cloudflare Corporation in particular is doing this rubs me the wrong way

[โ€“] bunkrra@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

fediverse as movement and ideology <> cloudflare is not going together, u right.

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