Wenn das der Kaiser wüsste!

And how are we supposed to turn screws nowadays?

Telephone sanitizers

Well, Mastodon instances usually aren’t called Fitter or Fex.

Saarland in Germany, supposedly

Humans generally don’t want to interact with needles while waiting to get their coffee. Needles are pointy and can poke you.

Maybe adjust by the number of upvotes coming from that instance (negatively) and by the number of upvotes users of your instance give over their (positively). If one instance spams upvotes, these upvotes loose value. If posts on that instance are popular with your users, the upvotes coming from that instance are more likely to have been made by real users. Maybe we can find a better metric to estimate the number of real, active users on another instance.