There's only so much time in the day. And far too easy to waste it arguing pointless things with random strangers on the internet.
In this case, their motive does not matter. They did you a favour shutting it down before you wasted any more time thinking about something that does not matter at all.
Kbin does Lemmy and Mastadon.
You can follow Lemmy communities on your Mastadon account. But I wouldn't recommend it. You get a string of out-of-context posts dominating your feed.
You can follow Lemmy communities from Mastadon but not the other way around. And it doesn't work well anyway.
You can use Kbin for both Lemmy and Mastadon.
But Mastadon content is not very Lemmy-like so if all you want is the BBC toots, but not a Mastadon account, you might as well bookmark bbc.social and scroll it occasionally.
Ah yes, the massive (pun intended) drawback of hashtags. Unless you actually wanted to follow a mix of news and porn.
It's instant verification for all their accounts and an instance that won't disappear on them.
It's so they can sell you SUVs.
But not the famously Dutch "Volkswagen”
Of course you should. It's so common here, Top Gear did a whole episode about how much they hate caravans. It's kind of like the UK equivalent of ~~toxic~~ insecure US men banging on about how much they love guns.
Very few are towed by SUVs because most people who go caravanning own much more modest cars (in part because they spent a small fortune on the caravan).
(for instance, earth moving equipment)
That's quite some reach.
Read it yourself, but think it through this time.
I used to live round the corner from a strange little place that sold cassette tapes (what we used for music and sometimes even data before CDs, for those too young to know). Everyone was convinced it was a front but it turned out it was a world famous tape supplier. Just happened to be based in my quiet little back street.
The newsagents next door to my last place have to have been a front though. Shelves were half bare, only ever stocked with stuff that doesn't go off. Always two or three guys hanging out in the back room, looking slightly surprised if you wanted to buy something. Cash only, no cards (not that unusual round here but they usually have a minimum purchase rather than just no card machine at all these days).
They were absolute sweethearts. Took loads of deliveries for us, always really nice about it. And that's more evidence that it's a front. Proper criminals are the best neighbours anyone could ask for because the last thing they want is complaints bringing the police to their door.