No wonder that trail is closed, I had no idea and was salty when my running route got diverted

It’a going to be up to admins to relieve communities of mod squatters. I believe they have been responsive in the past, I just don’t have direct experience with them.

Do I get the tip in this instance?

Ok that update clears up the question lol definitely taking about the same community in both those links. My theory is that each instance is reporting the number of users in their instance that joined the community but I can’t find anything to back that up with. Good question following to see if we can get a more authoritative answer.

I might be wrong but I think the maliciouscompliance on the lemmy.ml instance you linked is a wholy different version of maliciouscompliance than the one on lemmy.world. It’s hard to tell because the lemmy.ml one 404s for me now.