They did contact the original owner - who promised (reputedly) to take care of it.

That's important info.

Perhaps the original owner is so disengaged already that they aren't giving too much of a fuck about the fate of the instance. I can't exactly blame them.

It is not merely users going rouge (edit: no you know what, fuck it, I’m leaving this spelling exactly as it is, bc it’s 2025 baby! and this apparently is how we roll now)

Stop making me remember a certain movie! Okay, the movie is great, so keep reminding me of it. (Moulin Rouge. Their version of Roxanne is way better than The Police's original. Kind of like Concrete Blonde's Everybody Knows vs. Cohen's)

But I digress. Yes, the users were going rouge :-P under the implicit approval of the instance admins; that's why I say that the rule there against misbehaving in other instances was "toilet paper", it's just there to get shit.

Seeing how “responsible” they are, nobody believes the red scare issue

Yup. It's like the boy who cried wolf, isn't it?

Anyway, I hope that the good ones still stick around. And even the bad ones should get a place... just away from my sight. (Perhaps in truth social, showing their "critical support" to Trump. Hehe.)