Cloudfare have many service a dns resolver is one of them. Quad9 only provide a dns resolver. When you visit a website and see Cloudfare thats has nothing to do with their dns resolver that is a complitly different service they provide to protect against ddos attacks.
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IDK but Cloudflare has an ODoH endpoint
I use it for dns
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Quad9 is only a DNS server and I do use that for all of my servers as do many others. It doesn't provide domain registration, domain dns configuration, proxies, tunnels, etc, that Cloudflare does.
...for what, specifically?
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A lot of fediverse instances for some weird reason use Cloudflare for captchas and espionage. I assume it's a sort of "genre-blind" offloading hardware work moment, if not something like being Class Traitors, because one of the big reasons people come to the Fediverse is precisely to escape the grip and decision power of giants like CF.
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Seems a little odd that the fediverse uses Cloudfare.
You need to be more descriptive, use in what regard? Both are capable DNS providers but as far as I’m aware, Cloudflare is also a domain registrar.
Also each instance of Lemmy is configured differently, perhaps Lemmy.zip uses cloudflare but that isn’t the case for every instance of Lemmy.
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I use it as my upstream DNS setup on my two piholes.
I've never been able to chase it down, but Apple devices on my network always seem to have issues accessing some sites when using quad 9 for DNS. No problems with cloudflare, though. 🤷♂️
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I used to use quad 9 but stopped using it after running into too many issues where it provided completely wrong results. Like not even outdated results just straight up wrong values that never existed, with both public websites as well as customer dns entries that I have managed for over a decade.
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Is Q9 as easy to use?
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I don't think, that many people use Cloudflare. Why not Quad9? There are Vetter options
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