The second recent Bluesky bot wave is a big one. My god, there are a lot of them; probably around 5M by now.
It's whack-a-mole for the devs (more on the point of this later).
What's interesting is how the bots have evolved.
CrazyMyra
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2024-12-15 03:48:02 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…aut3
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