Lemmy Administration

Hey I don't run any instance so I'm not sure what's the best way to alert all instance admins - but there seems to be a massive wave of signups over the last few days, most likely by bots. I think some of the bigger instances know this and have mitigated it (my instance enabled captcha and email verification), but smaller instances like startrek.website and waveform.social are getting hammered. They've gone from 2000-4000ish users to >10,000 overnight. If this isn't fixed, it will probably be a big problem when these bot accounts are activated. It would suck if you run a smaller instance and had to defederate yourself because of thousands of spam bots.