Yes, it finally dropped by ~65K. I hope the situation continues to improve. Maybe the incompetent Lemmy.ml tankie admins have finally managed to fix their instance. But they would never admit that it's an issue with their servers... It's quite unfortunate that so many niche communities are hosted there. Otherwise we (and probably other big parts of the Fediverse as well) could just defederate and would never have to deal with these incompetent fucks again.
Unfortunately, I'm not getting any response from the .ml admins here or on Matrix, so if anyone wants to reach out to them and ask them to restart their sender that would be great, as the issue is ongoing.
Edit: still crickets from .ml admins ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ