[gjsman-1000]

Your mistake is openly suggesting on HN that you're going to use Cloudflare, increasing the centralization of the internet and contributing to their attestation schemes, while society forces you to be a victim of the tragedy of the commons.

[bdefore]

Please believe me that it is not a step I want to take.

[azdle]

Another option that wouldn't contribute to more centralization might be neocities. They give you 3 TB for $5/month. That seems to be _the_ limit though. The dude runs his own CDN just for neocities, so it's not just reselling cloudflare or something.

P.S. Thank you for ProtonDB, it has been so incredibly helpful for getting some older games running.

[gjsman-1000]

You don't need to apologize - HN needs to get their heads out of the sand that not everything is a tragedy of the commons, there's a reason why centralization exists, and the decentralized internet as it is now comes with serious drawbacks. We're never going to overcome the popularity of big tech if we can't be honest with the problems they solve.

Also, sue me, the cathedral has defeated the bazaar. This was predictable, as the bazaar is a bunch of stonecutters competing with each other to sell the best stone for building the cathedral with. We reinvented the farmer's market, and thought that if all the farmers united, they could take down Walmart. It's never happening.

[hombre_fatal]

In this context, the farmers are trying to deal with rampant abuse that is inconceivable to handle on an individual level.

It's not clear to me what taking down Cloudflare/Walmart means in this context. Nor how banding together wouldn't just incur the very centralization that is presumably so bad it must be taken down.