Nah, you’re good. Lemmy is still new stuff. 👍

Non-textual content (media, and icons I believe) is still served from the other instance to prevent all federated instances from exploding in size.

Additionally, some browsers will preload/prefetch links to “improve the browsing experience”

Content is up but users are down. Take that as you will.

Ah yes, the Stanley Yelnats family. I remember that

Person from 2020 magically appearing in 2090 and being told caffeine/excessive sugar is now regulated and ID checked

Launchdarkly is likely a culprit as well. Just doing a background search reveals that the service allows dev teams to do A/B testing, enable new features without releasing a new version, and various other “dynamic” functions.

OP is on the wrong side of Occam’s razor

I’ve ruled out a good amount of leads but I have not had contact with the admin yet :(

You say that like lemmynsfw.com isn’t one of the most popular instances.

I hear lemmynsfw.com has some. I’ve unsubsc… blocke… defederated away from it to my sure I don’t get any, yeah