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.

For those who don't think the user base is dwindling, a few years ago Mastodon was celebrating about 2m monthly active users. Nowadays it's 0.7m.
@GossiTheDog I'm an odd one out in that I like smaller social media. The internet was better in the forum days where small communities of at best 500 people shared a space. One thing I like about mastodon and bluesky over Twitter (aside for the obvious ones) is they are smaller and self curate to a better community. I don't want to be in the global village interacting with millions of people. I want small communities seperate to the mass of human opinion.