Is this Instance Down?

tested from tor. Also reported down by downinspector.com.

BTW, downinspector.com is the only Cloudflare-free service of its kind, but it’s notable that noscript reports XSS scripting attempts via Google.

(edit) it came back online yesterday.

The mamot.fr website and web client seems to be up for everyone. But for the past few days the #mamot.fr API for 3rd-party apps has been unreachable. Unverified: whether Tor is a factor. It would be interesting to hear from a non-Tor user if they can reach #MamotFR from a 3rd party app.

update

mamot.fr has been unreliable for 2 weeks now for API access as well as normal web access. It’s hit or miss. Sometimes it’s up, sometimes down, slow to load, and slow to login. I’m on Tor every time so it could be some kind of tor defensive move. Like tar-pitting. I guess at this point we should consider this problem permanent. It’s much less convenient to use now.

The following fedi instances are perpetually exclusive because they sit inside Cloudflare’s walled garden:

• lemmy.world
• sh.itjust.works
• zerobytes.monster
• lemmy·ca
• lemm·ee
• programming.dev
• lemmy.zip

If you cannot reach these instances, there are many possible reasons:

• you use a VPN
• you use a browser Cloudflare discriminates against while also using Tor
• you are using a public library PC
• your ISP uses CGNAT to allocate your IP address (often in impoverished communities)
• you have disabled image loading (because you are visually impaired, or you are on a capped uplink, or you are an environmentalist), which then triggers a false positive for being a robot.
• you are a legitimate beneficial bot (Cloudflare treats beneficial bots the same as malicious bots)

The listed sites will rarely be down for everyone but will often be unavailable to those in the above mentioned discriminated demographics of people.