I've had 20 sign ups to my Mastodon server in the past 48 hours, and 100% of them have been scammers, phishers and SEO spammers.
I make an effort to go in and suspend the accounts, nobody ever protests the suspension.
The fediverse is at a crossroads, the user base is dwindling and the new users are mostly just SEO spam accounts.
While unfortunate that we will likely not gain a large body of people, I would say that there is also value in a small well educated base who are connected.
Protecting ourselves from bad sources of information is only going to become more important. Smaller group of people, less value in targeting us for misinformation.
I took a long break, but I'm back. Mostly because I swapped phones and had to reinstall and log back in and just didn't for a while 😂
Kevin Beaumont
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Mick Collins
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