I have the application process enabled for people to join my instance, and I’ve gotten about 20 bots trying to join today when I had nobody trying to join for 5 days. I can tell because they are generic messages and I put a question in asking what 2+3 is and none of them have answered it at all, they just have a generic message.

Be careful out there, for all you small instance admins.

  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 year ago

    My guess would be because it is more difficult for other instances to deal with instances that have a combination of bots and actual users.

    • Kichae
      2•1 year ago

      This.

      You just domain or IP block a bot server. Maybe you don’t want to block a place with a history, and people.

      And smaller sites are using the application form. SJW and Lemmy.world are much more ripe for setting up on, because it’s a much bigger decision to block them.