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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Some possibilities:

  • Some fool thinks it's a good idea to DDoS Reddit today to make a point.
  • Some Reddit admin thinks it's a good idea to take it offline deliberately to make a point.
  • The general public are hugging it to death out of curiosity about the protest.
  • Unrelated outage. Outages happen, sometimes even on the same day as other things.
[-] SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Using Occam's Razor, I'd bet on the last option.

[-] ghoonrhed@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Album@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Reddit uses AWS, not cloudflare.

[-] andrew@radiation.party 1 points 1 year ago

Cloudflare is a reverse proxy service, many services are hosted through Cloudflare on other hosting providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, DO, etc.

Reddit appears to use Fastly, but I could be wrong there. They used to use Cloudflare in combination with the rest of their infra

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