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Now I understand: I thought that federating Threads was a deliberate choice, but it was probably an incidental phenomenon simply due to the large numbers managed by your instance.
Probably one of the ten Instagram executives who have a federated profile has tried to search for one of your contents. Or he found the message of a followed user who participated in one of your threads in his Timeline. Or they are simply experimenting with your instance…😁
In any case, there is at least one other Lemmy instance, probably for the same reason: it is an instance that handles quite large numbers anyway: https://sh.itjust.works/instances
Um… that’s not what it looks like from the relevant page: https://sh.itjust.works/instances