hey friends,
i spent the day evaluating options and ive come to the plan we will be using going forward for dealing with the cloudflare question
the reason ddos and deplatforming as a whole is effective is because there exist single points of failure – the dns or ddos provider, the upstream, there’s all kinds of people to exist
the cloudflare question was presented today in where cloudflare 3 days ago said they were going to protect kiwifarms because they “had an obligation” and then today (last night) cloudflare CEO walked back his comment and blocked (the first of this ever happening in cloudflare’s existence) by modifying the users DNS record to point at their PR hitpiece about kiwifarms.
not only is this a violation of privacy but they fucking stole kiwifarms domain to point to their own PR piece which i believe is illegal in just about every country
poast, fse and anyone else who wants to help contribute is working to eliminate this starting monday by working on a DNS solution that is distributed. the end user, server owner or otherwise will download and install the software and that persons machine will be included in the array. DNS lookups will be performed by thousands of nodes in real time with 0 TTL. amplification attacks will cease to exist because there is no single endpoint.
poast is now accepting donations for this project, give.poast.org and poa.st/donate/crypto