Maybe CF and spez are paying the script kids.... damn....

It's highly unlikely. Cloudflare is (I think) the biggest CDN provider and one of the biggest domain registrars. Whatever lemmy.world is paying them it's inconsequential to their books. For a sense of scale, they own the IP address 1.1.1.1. (as an aside, 1.1.1.1 is a DNS host, but unlike the other popular ones it has a webpage so it's very convenient for checking if your internet is down or if you're having DNS issues)

Basically, the cost reward is way out of whack for them to consider ddosing such a small site.

No, but Cloudflare is providing services to those kids too.
Most of the services that provide DDoS attacks as a service use Cloudflare themself and Cloudflare is absolutely okay with it.

Lol. Just for shits and giggles I want to entertain this for a second.

You’d probably want to pay hackers in a country that isn’t friendly with the US to do this. Russia, North Korea, China, Iran.

Three of those countries are heavily sanctioned right now. I wouldn’t want sketchy money flowing to Russia at the moment even if it didn’t technically fall under sanctions since money flow is being scrutinized. Same with NK and Iran.

So that would leave China. I think you could get away with it there pretty easily.

And lo and behold….

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/cloudflare-partners-with-jd-to-expand-its-network-in-china/amp/

:tinfoilhat:

With that said though. Getting that info leaked out would be extremely damaging and totally not worth the risk.