Why are there so many residential IP addresses attempting to SSH into my remote server?

I did a little experiment where I left port 22 open on one of my raspberry pi zeros to see who would be attempting to gain access. The results I collected over the course of the week were quite surprising.

After checking out auth.log, I noticed that almost all of the failed logins were coming from residential ip addresses from across the globe. I entered the IP addresses into iphub dot info and it said that most of these ip …

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