They’re always active with their own mastodon server & proving (no strings attached) funds for the development (along with some other ActivityPub projects if I’m not mistaken).

Could not agree more!

Oddly enough that trick didn’t work on Fedia.io (Kbin server), where books@kbin.social works…
Is there a similar trick for Kbin?

Thank you so much! That worked perfectly - I’ve done it now on a couple of Lemmy servers, so it’ll show up there by default now.
Only Lemmy.ml didn’t work, but that’s ok!

Yikes you’re at -51 !