As long as it isn’t actual credentials from reputable sites, it’s almost definitely a scam lol

I agree, but it’s too late now. Even Sync defaults to the .world instance, and at this rate, they’ll only grow bigger.

You want to defederate from the largest Lemmy instance, the poster child, and the mascot of Lemmy? Good luck. They are Lemmy now.

Yup, genuine problem, they seem to be flapping for the last hour or so since they put it behind CF. Probably just a misconfiguration on their end, but this shows how important it is to diversify and spread out, instead of putting all your metaphorical eggs in the lemmy.world basket.