A lot of the #internet has become dependent on Cloudflare, so any reliability issues with that will cause catastrophic failures.
People think they need Cloudflare for DDoS protection (it's a digital protection racket), and the DDoS problem exists because data is not sufficiently federated/distributed across servers/peers.
So to fix the reliability of the internet, more redundant data storage is needed. This isn't anything very advanced though. Torrents are redundant storage. Federated posts in the fediverse are redundant storage. Most traditional server systems and walled garden data silos are fragile.
@bob I'd argue that it's very questionable whether "the DDoS problem" even really exists to begin with. I've lost count of how many people claiming "I need it against DDoS", upon inquiring further, turn out never to have actually been the target, but just *assumed* that they would be.
Fearmongering is, after all, the classic grift in the DDoS mitigation industry...
