> There was a time Cloudflare just made the internet better

This is the kind of naive thinking that enabled what's going on today. Sadly, the decentralized Internet is now destroyed and will never exist again.

Yeah but you can't blame 1 company for destroying the whole thing

What decentralized solution ever existed for preventing DDoS attacks while allowing a spike of traffic when, say, your blog post gets a highly upvoted HN submission? I am not really convinced this is a problem that can be solved without centralization. It'd be like trying to decentralize airports or communications cables.