Shit, why even back to them? If there's a better DDOS protection service that definitely won't drop the farms, like the one we've got now, why go back even if Cloudflare wants us to? Let them reap what they've sown. They traded their so-called values and the concept of free speech for the temporary approval of a mob of fetishistic freaks and wannabe child abusers. Not even much approval given one of Lucas's top points was "we're gonna outdo Cloudflare and be better than them!" Leave Cloudflare behind and let them deal with the fresh hell they've unleashed on themselves by bowing to the wishes of troon sociopaths.
I don't think there is a better DDoS protection service.
I think Cloudflare has the best scruples when it comes to this issue that is possible in a free market in this business. Like for example, Cloudflare has a policy where they don't charge customers for surge pricing for attacks. They have a somewhat higher flat fee and then just eat the costs of sucking up a DDoS attack. Which is expensive, data-wise.
In a free market, no one but Cloudflare is willing to do that. And in fact, Kiwifarms is on Cloudflare's free plan, so we get this all for free. (I believe?)
I think his discomfort with being the nexus point for censorship is sincere, even if he's a giant pussy who blubbers about the content he's protecting.
I legit think he's like an old school ACLU skokie-type, in spirit.
I know most people won't trust him (or anyone) like that, and that's fair. He is the CEO of a west coast tech company, afterall. But idk, I get that vibe from him.
Anyway, I guess we'll see one way or another how he rationalizes this when Tuesday (or sometime next week) rolls around.
When a service that's supposed to just provide DDOS protection tells you it wants to "ambitiously build a better internet", that's a huge red flag. You keep websites from being taken down by illegal attacks. That's it. Leave this "building up the internet" shit to actual sites.
I agree, it's a pretty spergy, utopian goal to have. And "utopian" usually becomes "tyrannical" pretty quickly.
But in real life, ddos protection is unfortunately a fact of life. No small, controversial sites can survive without it, so when a huge network that protects 17% of the internet does something, it's massively important to the internet existing at all.
Now what would really solve this problem permanently would be some kind of internet-wide treaty/protocol for punishing people for DDoS attacks. Maybe not the owners of the botnets, but for example, if someone hacks a bunch of routers on comcast's network, comcast is responsible for paying for that (or be null routed by other networks). It'd require negotiation and some kind of treaty, essentially, but it'd fix this shit permanently. It'd kill DDoSing as a tool for extortion permanently.
Hell, it'd enable people to run small sites on their home routers. And whether people used either home routers or small vps hosted servers (like $4/month), it'd profoundly democratize the internet.
Lol and we can't have that. Facebook, google, youtube, twitter et al would rather just pay their cloudflare/whatever fee and keep the rest of us as serfs on their protected networks.
