this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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I think what you can do is take a small subset of users that have registered in your instance and observe their behavior. If you've noticed a lot of them are acting in bad faith and in bad behavior then its likely that a lot of the user registrations in your instance are bots. How active are the users in your instance in terms of posting and in commenting?
Been keeping an eye- I don't think any of them are actually even active. At least, in the sense I don't see any posts/comments.
I mean for now it seems okay, I took the liberty to check out your instance to check it out and it seems to be okay imo too but still keep an eye out of bad actors
My current assumption- based on the data I dug up, it appears to be legit traffic originating from reddit.
I just don't think the users realize their account was approved... perhaps. /shrugs.
Unexpected wave of traffic I suppose.
Possible people who dont get approved immediately move on to amother server and settle in.