Been watching over the recent surge in fediverse users for about a week now. Last week, it was climbing what i would call naturally, organically. Now for the last couple days, its been like 350k in the last 2 days.
Love to see the growth of users, but these have to be bot created accounts. I dont want this to be bot infested community. I see the value in bots when used correctly, but lets be real - general population and bots could ruin this community.
Is there anything planned? Is there work from some third party to throw off the “stableness” of Lemmy / fediverse?
The Lemmy World owner was talking with the Lemmy devs about adding captchas to the signup process so something like that probably isn’t far away. Right now the plan is probably to temporarily defederate with instances that have too many spambots but it’s up to instance owners to decide exactly what to do next.