I don't have half the knowledge in IT you have, but i totally agree we should find a solution to seperate from mastadons who owns the whole network.

It's very similar to how we shouldn't give big corpos like GAFAM willingly our data/privacy or our foodchain shouldn't be controled by a few corpos who serve poison... (the list goes on).

Most people just don't care, they have nothing to hide or they won't die if they eat one cheesburger from McDonald's a week...

But in the case of lemmy I think (personal opinion) It's because it's easier, simpler, faster to setup right now. I'm sure if they had a better solution to not depend on cloudflare they would chose the other solution.

I mean your idea seems great, but how long would it take to put it inplace? How many highly qulified people are needed to make it work? How much will it cost....

I hope that in the long run, lemmy instances are going to find a better solution 😀