Did they give up?
I am on it right now.
However they have had some issues lately which is detailed in this post
@thecam This link struggled to load and did so incompletely.
Here is an archive.org cap someone made yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20230809182416/https://lemmy.world/post/2923697
Great posts. Sounds like the fascists are mad that they don’t get access to the largest instance without having to follow it’s rules.
Fascists are everywhere on that instance and they preemptively banned the leftist instance from federation. Lemmy.world is easily the most fascist friendly of the major instances