everytime an instance, or a community goes down or recieves too much drama, they scatter to other platforms thats why. some went to piefed, and others. the last instance that went down, there was much more people lemmy, especially in some categories(not much but more than now)
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everytime an instance, or a community goes down or recieves too much drama, they scatter to other platforms thats why. some went to piefed, and others.