Boycotts

Cloudflare is the most harmful fiefdom amoung our technofeudalist walled gardens. Unlike Facebook, Cloudflare is largely inescapable because over 30% of the web has become restricted access under Cloudflare. Government agencies have started jailing public resources in Cloudflare. In some cases naively obligating people to use websites that they are blocked from, if they find themselves in a demographic that Cloudflare has shut out. People are being denied electronic access to medical information, voting information, credit histories, etc.

People who are not blocked are unwittingly sharing all their sensitive info with an (essentially invisible) tech giant in a country without privacy safeguards.

Even in the Lemmy network, some of us are fucked because the biggest instances (Lemmy World and [ironically named] sh.itjust works) make some content unreachable to those on the more liberated hosts. It’s a centralized walled garden in the middle of our otherwise decentralized network.

In addition to the linked article, there is also:

• Comparison of the human disempowerment severity of 3 walled gardens (Facebook, Google, and Cloudflare)
• Cloudflare has created the largest most rigidly exclusive walled garden in the world