I'm part of the problem. (This is my first post.)
Hopefully it is not nefarious.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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My guess is that those users are reddit refugees, and they are trying to figure out the platform before posting.
Well, people really have started hating Reddit lately.
They might be boosting their user count so their new instance is higher in instance lists. I looked at two of them and both had 10.1k users, but only few of were active at the time.