Your mistake is openly suggesting on HN that you're going to use Cloudflare, increasing the centralization of the internet and contributing to their attestation schemes, while society forces you to be a victim of the tragedy of the commons.
Also, sue me, the cathedral has defeated the bazaar. This was predictable, as the bazaar is a bunch of stonecutters competing with each other to sell the best stone for building the cathedral with. We reinvented the farmer's market, and thought that if all the farmers united, they could take down Walmart. It's never happening.
It's not clear to me what taking down Cloudflare/Walmart means in this context. Nor how banding together wouldn't just incur the very centralization that is presumably so bad it must be taken down.
P.S. Thank you for ProtonDB, it has been so incredibly helpful for getting some older games running.