A recent thread about lemmy.world revealed that nobody knows where the servers are but that CloudFare, a US service is used. After going down a bit of rabbit hole (and not really understanding everything), this question popped up in my head.
It seems like all traffic to cloudfare is first send to the US, which seems dangerous…
Cloudflare does a million things, some of them free to lure you in and then it’s easy to start paying them for their other convenient features, or maybe your size grows over Cloudflare’s free tier limits for some service.
Suddenly you’re paying cloudflare for some services, using others for free, and realize nobody else provides everything that cloudflare does, you’d have to use a bunch of different services.