Today, a bunch of new instances appeared in the top of the user count list. It appears that these instances are all being bombarded by bot sign-ups.
Yup, I noticed this as well.
Hopefully the mods of the instances will notice this and remove these accounts quickly! Despite this, I think the mods of all instances, and of all communities, had better brace themselves for incoming spam and hate speech.
The developer isn’t using the API. They’re scraping according to my question and their response to this above. However, the moderation question is a really good point. The easy workaround for this is just set every new community as ‘only moderators can post’ and then it’s just content read-only.
Seems to me it makes sense to go ahead and create it. There’s no reason the mods on Reddit should necessarily be the mods anywhere else. They don’t own the subject under discussion, after all. They just happened to be the ones to start a subreddit or get invited to moderate by others.
There’s a real opportunity in being able to create your own community here. If there were problems or issues with a subreddit, whether it be mod problems, rule issues, general tone of the sub, etc, this is a chance to change that and make it right.
Yup, that’s the same one I use as well.