Abandoned America on Nostr: I'm just going to throw this out there: I have been getting a ton of new follows, and ...
I'm just going to throw this out there: I have been getting a ton of new follows, and a lot of them appear to be bots and fake accounts.
I think we can mostly agree that bots and fake accounts are not a great thing for the majority of people in the Fediverse who aren't looking to artificially inflate follower counts - a process that really isn't beneficial to anyone who wants actual authentic engagement - and I'm concerned that this will eventually lead to the sort of spam plaguing Facebook.
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