@Kye I don't think they're fake users. They're genuinely all real people who got banned from every other social media site online.

And it comes down to the fact that Pleroma will run on literal garbage hardware from an ewaste center dump. Keep in mind, the developers of Pleroma don't condone behavior even "remotely" tied to it, they just don't make it as obvious. The fact they're on good terms with the Akkoma devs as opposed to Rebased sums it up more than words and PR releases can.