FYI: lemmy.world appears to have suffered a serious compromise.
At a minimum they had some hacked web UI mayhem going on along with at least 1 admin account compromised...now they are in an at least partially down state. Might be worth alerting the Powers That Be to see if they want to offer assistance and if any measures should be taken to protect servers federated with it.
well that would explain the problem i had then! the error page redirected me to this community very helpfully. i was meaning to make another account on a smaller instance anyways, so not entirely bad