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I’m still trying to get used to Lemmy; the main thing confusing me is the federated bit.

I just want to access Lemmy and its content; how do I do that?

You should be able to see pretty much anything from any instance. That’s kind of the point :)

Currently I’m just going to old.lemmy.world and using that as a starting point.

It’s worth noting that old.lemmy.world doesn’t use my fork of mlmym (yet? I should write to them about this), so you are missing out on a few features, most notably user preferences, which you’ll need to go to the normal lemmy.world UI for. But that shouldn’t generally be a problem.

2. I really don’t like cloudflare and have it disabled in Javascript. I don’t want to leave it enabled for lemmy.world.

I don’t remember right now whether lemmy.world uses cloudflare (it looks like it does, for mlmym at least). There are probably other instances that don’t use it, but most will use some kind of anti-bot system. In the end, it’s a matter of choosing the option you’re most comfortable with :)

mlmym itself shouldn’t need any JavaScript, although some things will be slightly nicer with it enabled (voting, replying, and so on don’t require a page reload, for example).

1. Probably wouldn’t hurt to set them up, especially if you don’t have a static prefix. The good thing is that interfaces can have multiple IPv6 addresses, so they can use both the public address and the ULA.
2. SLAAC should always be enough. Make sure you don’t block the ICMP6 messages it needs though (I’ve been bitten by that once, firewalld behaves weirdly around this).

I’m in this image and I’m not sure what to think about it

Anyone know which mod added this text?

The information returned by whois depends on the registry. For example, most registries for European TLDs basically just show whether the domain is registered (I say “most” because I’m not sure whether it’s actually all or if there are exceptions, but I know .de is like this). In that case, there aren’t even “whois privacy” services available from registrars. For TLDs from other countries or gTLDs, this might vary.

In either case, do note what the other comment says. Whois is not the only way to identify who runs a service.

it returns a lot of information such as registrar name, abuse contact, creation date… even though i paid extra for “whois privacy.”

If you didn’t pay for whois privacy, it would most likely return your actual name, email address, phone number, and home address instead. “Whois privacy” just means your registrar inserts their information into these fields instead, and forwards any mail they might get to you.