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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.
I guess if you have to defend against DDOS attacks going big is the only way.
No, that is why I created https://angieguardian.org/
But this only covers layer 7, doesn't it?
That is right. I tried to be transparent what is it NOT: https://angieguardian.org/guide/threat-model#what-guardian-does-not-defend-against
It's not.
Care to elaborate?
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.
Ok, seems we have different ideas of what a real ddos attack is. I was thinking level 3 attacks.