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.
Anything that a user can do and the bot owner wants to do.
Could be automated vote brigading, could be spam comments, could be spam posts in any community.
Oh shit. Yeah, that’s an issue.