• Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I noticed a bunch of almost new instances shoot up by several thousand users yesterday as well. My guess is people are using bots to create thousands of accounts, and this is gonna result in all manner of issues soon enough.

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    1 year ago

    It’s also possible, being that it’s a new instance, it’s just being used to subscribe to communities outside of that instance.

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      1 year ago

      That wouldn’t explain where the 6112 users suddenly came from.

      I noticed this as well. Within just a few hours a whole bunch of newer instances have suddenly shot up by several thousand users each. My guess is that people are using bots to take advantage of the sign-up bugs and are creating thousands of bot account to use in various annoying and nefarious ways in the near future.