Did not know about that seeder. Super useful tool! Thanks for sharing.

I exclusively use Lemmy via voyager.

Have you seen how meta does business?! Talk about a straight up evil corporation.

They don’t know how to play nice. They have no interest in playing nice. They’re out to make as much money, whatever it takes. They either buy their competitors or try to kill them. The fediverse is not for sale and we need to keep a healthy distance so they don’t get a chance to kill us.

Do not federate with meta.

Given how evil they are, this definitely seems plausible (although threats isn’t available in the EU and they are actively preventing usage in the EU). Another option is that they’re still out to kill the fediverse. That one honestly seems more likely to me, given how they’ve acted in the past (buying up platforms before they could outcompete them).

To shreds, you say?

How do you differentiate between a small instance where 10 votes would already be suspicious vs a large instance such as lemmy.world, where 10 would be normal?

I don’t think instances publish how many users they have and it’s not reliable anyway, since you can easily fudge those numbers.