Recently, I have been getting a number of followers whose user names start with numbers. None of them every writes shit to me. Are these mofos genuinely my fans trying to get into my pants or are they bots?
Who are these followers?
Recently, I have been getting a number of followers whose user names start with numbers. None of them every writes shit to me. Are these mofos genuinely my fans trying to get into my pants or are they bots?
7 Comments
Lehmuusa@nord.pub · 18 pts · 10d
They are Mastodon users. There is an interoperability bug between PieFed and Mastodon that causes some Mastodon users' names to be replaced with some internal Mastodon user number.
recursive_recursion@piefed.ca · 13 pts · 10d
To me it seems like bots or sleeper accounts
Might be best to report and/or block them
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 10d
What's a sleeper account?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 10d
An account that builds credit to be able to post and interact, and be seen as not a new or "baby" account. They create them now, do fake micro interactions, then, when reputation score is higher, they get used as spam or malware.
Report and block, imo
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 10d
One trying to get into your pants
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 10d
Which one :3
Vicinus@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 10d
I've gotten a few of them. I'm pretty certain they are spam or will be spam in the future. I block them.
If someone else has a better understanding of who/what they are, feel free to let me know too.