Screenshot is from a mod in their discord server
FOSS, GPLv3, and M1+Linux support on day one along with major updates to the website! As someone with the majority of their playtime on bedrock, the direction of the java scene is always amazing to see.
My guess is that Lemmy is at the weird intersection where it's popular enough that people get satisfaction from "breaking" it while also not being mature enough to have robust ways to defend against it. The project did get forced into the limelight after all and it's fantastic that everything has scaled as well as it has so far