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The advertisement and push they did on sites like reddit and their listing on join-lemmy.org (when they where still listed) made them the biggest instance. And with the name Lemmy.world they did nothing to dissuade anyone from thinking that. If this was all randos pushing the instance then boo to them, but I also saw nothing from .world not claiming to be the bigger instance(super lemmy)
The lemmy world admins advertised on Reddit? Can you link an example?
Until recently EVERY lemmy instance was listed on join-lemmy.
They run a family of servers under the world tld, including at least mastodon, lemmy, and calckey. They're all named similarly.
They ARE the biggest instance, but that happened organically. It's not based on any marketing claims from the admin team about being a flagship/super/mega/whatever instance. People just joined, and the admins didn't stop them (nor should they). It's not a conspiracy to take over lemmy. It's just an instance that... until recently... happened to work pretty well when some were struggling.