As long as it isn’t actual credentials from reputable sites, it’s almost definitely a scam lol

That’s not how federation works. You can still interact with lemmy.world and its users from another instance, but spreading out not only helps with lemmy.world’s load, but also the fediverse.

Almost definitely, it’s hard to imagine there’s a community on lemmy.world that not one of the 20k users have susbcribed to

Pretty much any of the top 5 instances already subscribe to each others communities. Definitely not missing out on lemm.ee either!

One can easily get around that by simply subscribing to more communities!

too late, going to register on lemm.ee now!

At present, I don’t think it does, which is a shame.

probably it’s just not worth it attacking smaller instances? lemmy.world is such a juicy target given how big it is.

That is still the 7th largest instance. I’m glad it still works out for you, but I’m still not a fan of how the entire fediverse can be summarised in the top few instances.

How about no? No instance in the fediverse should grow as unsustainably as lemmy.world or lemmy.ml. People should naturally diversify into the smaller instances because that is what a federated Lemmyverse is supposed to be about.

0.18.1 has been released!

None. Lmao. This is by design.