Strange, I don't get any such notice, never had an account there.
That would've been incredibly scary, never knew storm surges could do that. Unfortunately it's only gonna get worse as hurricanes get stronger.
Yes, confirmed having an outage: https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/014dkyf9dqfl
Dimensity
Goodbye custom roms..
I believe this issue is being tracked here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3236
Even more reason to use adblockers.
What does cloudflare have to do with k8s? Maybe you're confusing it with load balancer.
To answer your question, yes, some big instances are actually using CF protection to mitigate DDoS attacks.
One thing I just noticed is the privacy policy. It proxies the data to their server and can collect analytics. I do understand it's to circumvent CORS, but still we've to keep that in mind.
It has! Check appearance in settings.
Brave search works well.
Does brave index data on it's own or is it pulled from Google/Bing?
Still it looks like CMG pitched a plan to serve ads by listening to user conversations. Of course CMG and their clients are gonna deny it.