It's confusing for new users, and this instance in particular has 7k users but no interactions. It's a bot army, with the top user being called @admin.
Extremely shady and misleading.
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Official instance admin and community mod roles are denoted with badges, though. That's consistent across every instance already.
I could change my name to admin or use my local instance @admin account and post here, but neither would give me any superpowers. Looking at my remote @admin user from a federated instance wouldn't badge me as an admin for that instance either.
I don't see the problem or see how that affects anyone. There can be an @john on every instance. Is that confusing for users, too? Should every instance coordinate and make sure there's only one @john to rule them all? Who is the best John, and how is that determined?
That's just how the fediverse works.