Apart from Cloudflare being an access restricted walled garden that harms interoperability, I really do not want my content on CF & I do not want CF content reaching me. This bug is one of many issues likely caused by Cloudflare:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4806490
I would like to flip a switch that has the effect of making my whole UX Cloudflare-free. Cloudflare is antithetical to decentralization and it has clearly broken the #Lemmy network.
Many of us admins specifically added cloudflare because of users trying to use our instances for nefarious purposes. For myself, it was the last option before shutting down my instance altogether. From Tor users trying to use it without any regard for my hosting to the CSAM attacks, cloudflare gave me an option to keep it running for the time being. I don’t agree with everything they do, but it’s the only way right now I can keep the server on without a constant despamming.
There is no way to “disable” cloudflare if an instance has chosen to use it. It will sit between you and the server for all traffic. You can choose to use another instance if you like, but server owners can choose what to do with their own servers.