So I hunkered down for a few hours and wrote a script that signs up for thousands of accounts on my Mastodon instance. There's a second script that logs into the email box and hits all the verification links, and a third that goes in afterward and gets the oAuth tokens. Can't believe I did this all in one night. I might even write the metabot I talked about earlier!

@kirkman well that's the proof that the network is in danger!!! :confused: :dizzy_face:

@johann Nah, all their toots will be unlisted. It's an experiment for a bot-only instance that provides data services for fediverse users.