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 generally agree, but it depends on the criteria used to identify suspected botswarm servers. I’d be okay with something simple like calculating an instance’s
(monthly active users) / (total users) = Xand then defederate ifXis below some very small value.The automated tool mentioned by @haxe11@sh.itjust.works sounds interesting in concept but can’t dig into the details at the moment.