Skavau

And the unnatural and extremely sudden increase in mentions - over just the last week or so, it's gone from Piefed almost never being mentioned anywhere to it being mentioned in hundreds if not thousands of threads a day. That also makes me suspicious.

It was gaining momentum anyway, but the big reason was the collapse of lemm.ee - which held many medium-sized communities having to find a new home. A lot (not all) chose piefed.

Piefed isn't a centralised system itself. There isn't just one Piefed instance.

I'd say under 24h is kinda harsh given I can see small instances get autolocked when the one mod is just on holiday or something for a report about idk, a post being offtopic (for instance)

Probably a petty good idea. But what constitutes inactivity. Just being idle off of the platform or not using the specific instance they purport to moderate?