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@SnowshadowII Do you like your instance? I'm thinking of switching.
I spend hours blocking on this one.
@GottaLaff @SnowshadowII if you're looking for a very well-moderated instance, I'd suggest also looking at hachyderm.io. I imagine @mekkaokereke and @molly0xfff also deal with massive amounts of bots and other nonsense and can speak (publicly or privately) about their experiences with the mods on Hachyderm.
@dave It they think it would make a difference in the number of bots who follow me, fine. I don't see anything that would do that. @SnowshadowII @mekkaokereke @molly0xfff
@GottaLaff @dave @SnowshadowII @molly0xfff
Honestly, I haven't experienced many bot problems since joining Hachyderm.
I think I can remember two major bot spikes in my entire time here? Both were within a few weeks of each other, and were the same Japanese instance auto-generating new accounts that disappeared very quickly.
@mekkaokereke @GottaLaff @dave @SnowshadowII likewise, very few issues!
@esk@hachyderm.io@molly0xfff @mekkaokereke @GottaLaff @dave @SnowshadowII we try our best, sometimes a few sneak through: usually bots/spam accounts from the larger instances. key is having a mod and infra team that work well together 
prediction: over next next few years activitypub/fedi will have to adopt most of what email has built over the last 2.5ish decades
@esk @molly0xfff @mekkaokereke @GottaLaff @dave @SnowshadowII
The bots that auto-follow tend to be programmatically following the mastodon.social instance timeline & when they see a user they don't know, they attempt to follow it.
So because they're focused on a single server they don't really affect other servers.
We also tend to have some custom anti-spam scripts running, which massively cuts down on noise.
@thisismissem @esk @molly0xfff @mekkaokereke @GottaLaff @dave @SnowshadowII oooh that explains that!
@Luk All good info, thanks everyone! @thisismissem @esk @molly0xfff @mekkaokereke @dave @SnowshadowII