We have around 1k users on our PeerTube instance. Yet only 3-4 max are active and say 20-30 max have ever posted sane content, or any content that suits our instance. Now....wtf is happening? We have bot protection and all that, email confirmation and so forth. And yet almost daily we get new registrations. 1-2 a day. From what I noticed the trading charlatans are doing the following: they make these sort of accounts on these platforms to ONLY add a description of their "business" or scammy practices, and link to them. They use these platforms for SEO/ad purposes.

How can we protect ourselves from that? No idea, because some sound legit....but maybe from time to time I will do yet another cleanup of such accounts.