Do people not remember back in the 2010s when bit.ly was the main link shortener used everywhere on the internet, and then Ghadafi, the then dictator of Libya, declared the site to be incompatible with Muslin decency norms because it was used for porn? And then all bit.ly links were just dead links?

How many times do we have to learn this lesson? Domain name hacks are fun but just not worth it. And in 2023, now we have all the new TLDs. This was a dumb decision

can you recommend a good instance with a no defederation policy?

Bro it was just a chance to improve your grammar. It was offered in good faith. If you don’t want it that’s of course your prerogative. But there’s no need for rudeness and hostility.

Of course in going that route you’ve demonstrated an aspect of lemmy that may be an answer to your question.

I would like to invite you to increase your mastery of the English language by learning about all the tenses. With a judicious choice, (I would recommend a pluperfect progressive), you can avoid writing confusing and self-contradictory things like:

Lemmy’s number of active users has been decreasing for the last month. […] the number has been on an upward trend for the last 6 months

Oh is that so? In that case it is indeed within their rights and I stand corrected.

So is there a place where we can access our lemmy.fmhy.ml accounts right now?

“Every right”? No. They have the power to do so but that doesn’t make it right. They sold those domains fair and square. Contracts were signed.