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.
Not on this instance. Was more of a general comment.
But as an example..
the User AkhuyanATlemmy.world
Ah you mean elsewhere? Yes it's very possible spammers are already "building up" accounts for later.
Unless I'm the one misunderstanding, they aren't opening a bunch of communities, they're a mod of !newcommunities@lemmy.world, where they make posts alerting users that new communities have been created. Their posts look weird because they're using a template that grabs the post title from the community description, so if it says something strange then their post will too, but those aren't their communities.
I thought they were creating those communities as well.