I guess that's possible. The instances I mentioned look like this:
https://fedidb.org/network/instance/parapheum.com
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It had 10 users two days ago and 4.6k today, not a single one of them seems to have posted or commented.
Odo
joined 1 year ago
Some small instances are seeing sudden increases in numbers of registered users (4k to 5k new users) but not an equivalent growth in activity, my guess is someone is creating accounts on instances without captcha enabled for account registration. Most of the top 10 fastest growing instances shown here fit that criteria.
Hexbear migrated to upstream Lemmy yesterday (they were running a home developed fork from an earlier version of Lemmy). I submitted the instance to fedidb earlier today (after a bunch of failed attempts because fedidb kept erroring out/timing out for some reason). Afaik, federation is not active (yet) on their instance.
Hexbear.net migrated to upstream Lemmy.
No. Go away.