So startrek.website have cleaned out their spam bots. Looking at the graph of their user counts on #fedidb gives a sense of the time course of the #lemmy spam bot problem.
https://fedidb.org/network/instance/startrek.website
If you presume the same time course for lemmy as a whole (which fits, see here: https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse), lemmy’s true user count is somewhere between its June 18 and 19 numbers … ~200k, somewhere around Pixelfed/peertube territory.
Bigger instances might grow faster.
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What was the technique for clearing out the bots?
rm -rf “bots”
Edit: but for real, does anyone know the answer?
Sorry for the delay … here’s the conversation thread with the admin:
https://startrek.website/comment/172094
Don’t know. I’ve asked the admin to share, but they haven’t gotten back to me.