There has been a big spike in growth over the last 2 days, and some rather suspicious new instances appeared out of nowhere with thousands of new users, even though there is close to no activity in any of them.
Could all those be bots? Would it be smart to block those instances preemptively?
There has been bot activity also, but there have been several tech press and streamer shoutouts regarding lemmy and kbin. Beehaw in particular was listed #2 in a “Top 10” about where to go now that Reddit has shown its whole ass