If you look at the top ~20 servers on fedidb, they are very clearly botswarms. Either intentionally set up that way, or accidentally due to turning off protections and not deleting users.
You can tell this because they have 70,000 registered users, but only 10 of them are active.
I believe we should pre-emptively defederate with botswarms before they’re turned on. If the instance owners clear out the bots on their instances (like lemmy.ninja did) then they should be immediately refederated.
I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t want this place to be drowned in spam as soon as they’re activated.
We did vote for using an automated tool, even, to protect against such instances: https://sh.itjust.works/post/338826
Right as that vote was happening, we had new mods appointed and a new system for voting that involved a mandatory discussion step (which I 100% agree with).
Starting this with the new process and rules I felt was important as this is an important issue.