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lemmy.world started using cloudflare many weeks ago because they were under constant DDOS attack. If you are only seeing this behavior now, it has nothing to do with it. As another user mentioned, they just upgraded to 0.18.3.
If that's true then why are there reports of the attack bringing them down on July 15th?
That was a lemmy exploit that someone gained admin credentials through the cookies. Quite a few lemmy servers were targeted, but many were able to patch quickly once it was reported through lemmy.world.
Your timeline is backwards. The account compromise was July 10; the DoS attack came after that (July 15th). There is also no chatter of any kind about any attacks prior to July 10th.
You are correct. The issue in your post isn't caused by cloudflare though, it's caused by the update to 0.18.3.