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’m not very well versed in how all of this works or what the consequences of a defederation are (besides, you know, not getting to see its content anymore). But an instance with such an odd composition of users and active users should be watched with suspicion. I don’t know if immediate defederation is the best solution, but it might be a good idea to have some kind of policy ready should suspicions be proven to be true?