There has been a big spike in growth over the last 2 days, and some rather suspicious new instances appeared out of nowhere with thousands of new users, even though there is close to no activity in any of them.
Could all those be bots? Would it be smart to block those instances preemptively?
It does look strange, but they could be refugees from the collapse of Reddit.
Sure, but why on these days specifically? I don't think anything happened that could've triggered such a sudden spike of users...
I also ran into this post, talking about it.
To add to my previous response, for tchncs, the user wave actually slowed down a bit i feel like... who knows.
So, good day to join myself. Keep the wave high 😀