> I had over 800 spam signups overnight

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3200#issuecomment-1597527641

And here is likewise a comment from myself about my instance

> I just got hit by a wave of bot accounts.

> I immediately noticed this because I had ~5 users on my instance and then suddenly today I have >669 users.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3202

I am fearing that spam bots will kill Lemmy just like spam bots killed Usenet discussions years ago. Hopefully this will not be the case.

For now I myself am shutting off my instance so that the spam bots registered on my instance do not negatively affect other instances.