I have the application process enabled for people to join my instance, and I’ve gotten about 20 bots trying to join today when I had nobody trying to join for 5 days. I can tell because they are generic messages and I put a question in asking what 2+3 is and none of them have answered it at all, they just have a generic message.
Be careful out there, for all you small instance admins.
I wonder if there’s already a “the bots are from Reddit” conspiracy :D
I really see no point in these actions. I mean, seriously, why would you want to just harm something open?
For the same reasons you’d want to harm any other platform.