2025-12-05 13:20:23

Talk about decentralization all you want, but here's the uncomfortable truth: when Cloudflare has an outage, roughly 90% of crypto-related websites just vanish into thin air.

Think about that for a second. An entire industry built on the premise of eliminating single points of failure... and yet we're completely at the mercy of one centralized infrastructure provider. The irony is almost poetic.

Maybe we should spend less time preaching decentralization and more time actually practicing it. Just a thought.

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WalletDivorcer

· 16h ago

Haha, the sarcasm is spot on. Web3 people keep bragging about decentralization, but as soon as Cloudflare pulls the plug, everyone goes down. Wait a minute, isn’t this exactly what we’ve been saying from the beginning? Nobody listened. Exactly, the underlying infrastructure is still a centralized bottleneck. Slogans alone are useless. Damn, this comparison is truly hopeless. Feels like the whole ecosystem is just fooling itself. So when will real decentralization actually happen? Right now, it’s all just pseudo-decentralization, isn’t it? Come on, most projects never even thought about this issue. As long as they can raise money, that’s all they care about.

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NotFinancialAdvice

· 12-05 13:48

This is really something else. They talk about decentralization, but they're still sitting on Cloudflare. --- 90% of websites rely on a single company to stay up—so this is our web3 dream? --- Haha, that’s a pretty painful irony. What happened to "no single point of failure"? --- Instead of shouting about decentralization all day, maybe actually make your own infrastructure independent before bragging. --- Isn’t this the classic “we need centralization to fight centralization”? Hilarious. --- Wait, so if Cloudflare really goes down, the whole ecosystem is screwed? That’s a pretty big risk. --- Slogans are useless. Time for some real reflection. --- Don't call out the truth, everyone—now they've been exposed. --- Web3’s emperor has no clothes. Anyone who speaks the truth gets attacked by the mob. --- So what's the solution? Besides just continuing to use Cloudflare, what else can you do?

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LiquidationOracle

· 12-05 13:43

This is ridiculously ironic. After all these years hyping up decentralization, we’re still relying on CF... Seriously, one outage and everything collapses. How do they still have the nerve to talk about the future of web3? Honestly, it’s almost 2024 and people are still fooling themselves. Isn’t this just reality? The infrastructure hasn’t caught up with all the tech hype. Exactly, just shouting slogans is pointless... Humans are really good at deceiving themselves, putting on this big act about decentralization. It’s not a huge problem, just kind of a pain in the ass. When CF goes down, the whole ecosystem can’t survive. That’s the real truth, right? So in the end, it’s still the whole centralized setup holding everything together.

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WalletWhisperer

· 12-05 13:33

cloudflare down = 90% vanishes. classic behavioral indicator of systemic fragility. the irony patterns here are almost too clean, statistically speaking. we're observing a market organism that talks decentralization but its nervous system remains entirely centralized. fascinating anomaly really. makes you wonder about the actual architectural footprints versus the narrative velocity

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LiquidatedNotStirred

· 12-05 13:31

LOL, I've known for a long time that 90% of websites would disappear. --- They talk endlessly about decentralization, but in the end, everything is controlled by Cloudflare? The irony is just off the charts. --- So we're all just putting on a big show, huh... Shouting about decentralization when building blockchains, but still relying on big tech infrastructure when it actually matters. --- Instead of shilling decentralization every day, maybe work on actually decentralizing the network infrastructure first. --- This is the true state of crypto—saying one thing and doing another. --- Hey, here's a question: why don't these 90% of websites build their own infrastructure? Is it just laziness? --- The sarcasm is spot on, but what can you do? Cloudflare really is convenient and cheap. --- Classic contradiction: "We want a revolution" but then "the revolution needs centralized infrastructure." --- The more you think about it, the scarier it gets—a single Cloudflare outage exposes the industry's biggest weak point.

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GateUser-e87b21ee

· 12-05 13:29

This is the real portrayal of Web3. No matter how much you hype decentralization, it’s useless. --- Cloudflare goes down a little and the whole army is wiped out, hilarious, how ironic is that? --- That's right, we really need to reflect on this. --- 90% of websites rely on Cloudflare? That number is scary, is it true? --- Every day it's all about decentralization, yet one CDN provider can strangle the whole thing, unbelievable. --- Is this the industry consensus? All the infrastructure is centralized. --- Instead of just promoting, why not actually do something practical? Stop with the empty talk. --- Why has no one truly solved this vulnerability after so many years? --- The irony lies in the contradiction within the whole system itself. --- Sounds like a joke, but this is the reality.

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MoonlightGamer

· 12-05 13:26

This is awkward. No matter how loudly we shout the slogan of decentralization, it doesn't change the fact that we're at Cloudflare's mercy. --- 90% just give up directly. Seriously, instead of bragging, let's focus on improving the infrastructure first. --- Sarcasm aside, everyone is using it anyway. Is there a better option? --- So, Web3 still has a lot to learn. But to be fair, who isn’t relying on centralized services these days? --- This one hits hard. We're just pretending to be decentralized. --- When the outage happened, I checked Twitter—everything was gone, haha. That was a harsh lesson. --- Single point of failure vs. the dream of decentralization—reality hits hard in a second. --- When Cloudflare goes down, the whole industry is on its knees begging. Hilarious. --- Feels like a systemic risk that no one wants to admit. --- Honestly, someone should’ve brought this up a long time ago. You can't keep pretending forever.

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BearMarketMonk

· 12-05 13:21

The irony is that while we loudly proclaim decentralization, we're putting our fate in Cloudflare's hands. This is the true portrait of the modern crypto industry. --- To put it bluntly, the decentralization narrative has long been hollowed out—it's still these centralized infrastructures doing the actual work. It's just another cycle of self-deception. --- 90% of websites disappearing in an instant says it all. Our so-called innovation is essentially just putting a new label on continued reliance on centralization. We can't wake up. --- It's always like this: bold rhetoric during promotion, but when it really matters, the true colors show. Single points of failure have never been eliminated, just relocated. --- This is the breeding ground for market sentiment. Before the bubble bursts, everyone is so confident—survivorship bias clouds our vision. --- Instead of hyping the concept of decentralization, it's better to look at the reality when Cloudflare goes down. The law of survival is the ultimate standard for everything. --- From a meditative perspective, the decentralization we believe in has long become just a marketing slogan. History repeats itself, over and over again.

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