I guess the openness of the registration process and instance creation would invite this low effort type of attack. I also bumped in a post that reported community name squating, where accounts were creating empty communities with popular subreddit names in order to sell them later on I guess? I just don't see the actual benefit of it, it seems more of an oppurtinistic play more than anything else.
PerfectParanoia
joined 2 years ago
So is this an incredible influx of bot accounts? For what, spamming links? I haven't encountered any yet, is there a system already in place to fend this off?
That's what it seems like to me too. Plus there is nothing stopping admins of instances transferring ownership in these situations.