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.
I also agree that lemmy instances should defederate from botswarm servers. If they can clean themselves or prove they are not botswarms then refederate. But there is little to no benefit from allowing them to run amok.
It’s not even necessarily bot content that is an issue but bot swarms would dictate what content everyone sees through artificially altering the votes on content posted. It’s one of the reasons people have been fleeing reddit and we dont want that here either.