@paul If you create a bunch of users in your own instance via an automated script but never login to them, would that cause this spike and still leave it at one active user? If so, why would anyone do that? What's the point? I'm curious.
The first thing that came to my mind was a troll farm/bot farm.
They also could be setting up some kind of bridge to Reddit or some other site.
We saw this with Mastodon, but not at this volume, when servers were recreating popular Twitter users accounts by mirroring them to their Mastodon servers.
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