Seems a little odd that the fediverse uses Cloudfare.

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[–] 19 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

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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    I guess if you have to defend against DDOS attacks going big is the only way.

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    There's loads of DDoS alternatives.

    It's a national security threat to give your httpa private keys to a US company. As a result, loads of alternatives exist for real DDoS attacks.

    But also, almost any nonprofit social media site can just get away with a self hosted pow solution.

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