

Thing is that we dont have any information about someone who visits joinlemmy, other than the IP address which gives the location, and Accept-Language HTTP headers. So it attempts to give useful suggestions with that limited info.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/shared/data/instances-definitions.ts#L13








If any Activitypub platform sends messages to an actor which they arent addressed to, thats clearly a bug.