There has been a big spike in growth over the last 2 days, and some rather suspicious new instances appeared out of nowhere with thousands of new users, even though there is close to no activity in any of them.
Could all those be bots? Would it be smart to block those instances preemptively?
As for us, i am having a close eye on incoming names – so far pretty much all look authentic (speaking from mastodon experience) … i hope thats the case, it doesn’t scale well to manually approve so many people…
I hope so too. Thanks for looking out.