I subscribe to mostly Lemmy.world instances,

you subscribe to communities on the lemmy.world instance. Ultimately, lemmy.world doesn’t exist without the efforts of the developers behind Lemmy, so that’s definitely more important imo.

All of the above, but dating apps is likely the majority

I think it comes down to the US being tolerant because winning hearts and minds was more important than destroying Opium. The Taliban has no such qualms.

Worth noting however than this source is questionable and probably shouldn’t be used https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mint-press-news/

iirc, Hexbear was using their own unique fork of Lemmy (with unique features) for a long time and only recently, they’ve tried to close that gap and come closer to the main Lemmy branch. This history probably results in quirks like this.

Just FYI, you can sync up subscriptions far easier using tools like LASIM

It isn’t instantaneous, it takes time for them to sync up