it's slow, but there are people slowly turning towards a more decoupled internet, the problem is that you still *have* to use cloudflare (or any kind of http proxy), it's just a basic requirement that you can't avoid for anything that people would be interested in keeping offline.

I've been on the receiving end of attacks that were reported to be the size of more than 10tbps I couldn't imagine how I would deal with that if I didn't have a 3rd party providing such protection - it would require millions $$ a year just in transit contracts.

There is an increasing amount of software that attempts to reverse this, but as someone from https://thingino.com/ said: opensource is riddled with developers that died to starvation (nobody donates to opensource projects).