I noticed that a bot had started rapidly creating accounts on my instance. None of them used a real email address though, and email verification is required. I've since started requiring an application though, anyway.
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Yes.. They really should enable captcha if they haven't already. Like .world also ours got 'abused' by idle spam accounts
Not sure yet why but many Lemmy instance user numbers don't add up anymore
(Plus it's also causing major mail issues, at least with Mailgun)
Maybe start by alerting those admins of the potential problem and give them a chance to respond.
Sorry but no. I am not going to start going around doing that. I would be doing nothing else with my life. Same way that if someone sets up an open email relay, it's nobody else's fault when email providers start blacklisting them.
Except this is much smaller and more nascent than email, which has been around for decades. I don't think proactively de-federating instances that have done anything yet is the wrong approach at this time.