> 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.