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slash pages
Slash Pages, 2026/07/22

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Interesting set of common pages people can create on their website to serve common functions, for example, my sadly neglected /now page.

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I built a full fediverse service that runs 100% on Cloudflare
Reddit, 2026/07/22

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This is a post on Reddit where the author announced having built a fediverse service that runs on Cloudflare, a global content distribution network (CDN). It's quite the achievement, not exactly what anyone asked for, and a challenge to our understanding of the Internet and CDNs. The comments are not kind, with one person calling it a "cancer". But Reddit is not the fediverse, and reactions on, say, Mastodon have been more nuanced. Here's the source.

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