The botted account proliferation is escalating fast. Almost all top instances one can see in the fediverse observer are now bot-filled ones
I contacted their team to ask them to gather more details so that we can use the Overseer to combat this in advance, but they're disinterested in helping so no assist will come from there. Fairly disheartening I must say.
I was not planning to get into this sort of api polling, so I'll have to see how feasible it is for me to develop it the overseer itself.
I think we're in for a bit of a flood with this stuff. I had to unfollow a and subsequently block a bunch of nsfw instances because it was just awful AI image spam.