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Is parapheum.com an example of botted user lemmy instance? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list you can see parapheum.com has currently 6112 users if you go to parapheum.com it has only 1 community, is this an example of botting? Or am I missing something since I am a one day old lemmy user.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That wouldn't explain where the 6112 users suddenly came from.

I noticed this as well. Within just a few hours a whole bunch of newer instances have suddenly shot up by several thousand users each. My guess is that people are using bots to take advantage of the sign-up bugs and are creating thousands of bot account to use in various annoying and nefarious ways in the near future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't have a good frame of reference. I see now that 6000+ users is abnormal.