@laurenshof but does it matter to existing Fedi users, or even most Fedi admins? the scenarios i see playing out are:

- Brazilians join existing large Fedi servers. (mastodon.social better find some mods familiar with Brazilian Portuguese real quick.) the spam and scams that come with any large wave of Fedi users happen, affected users yell at m.s for not doing better to moderate it, most users never notice.
- Brazilians join existing Brazilian Fedi servers or create new ones. the usual domino effect occurs: many servers can't cope with the moderation load or hosting costs, some collapse, new servers spin up, life goes on. best case scenario, new admins have read accounts of previous Fedi collapses and maybe don't make all the same mistakes as previous waves, but this seems unlikely. existing users affected by spam and scams defed Brazilian instances, and maybe remember to refed when they calm down but probably don't.
- Brazilians join Bluesky, problems focus more on moderation than cost and happen on the butterfly app. Fedi misses out.