The biggest cottage industry on BlueSky is building accounts to be sold to "Twitter elite" who don't want to go through the drudgery of, you know, earning followers.
These spam accounts usually take the form of "cute animal picture" aggregators, though I recently got one focused on bonsai - which is a hilarious first for me.
They mass follow new arrivals to the platform, hoping to get a followback from people grateful for the attention.
Then they "follower-farm" - weeding out those who haven't followed back and following more.
Once they've achieved the desired number of followers - still low as BlueSky doesn't have 100k DAUs yet - they start unfollowing until they have the "elite" ratio, then sell.
Don't laugh - something similar is happening in the fedi
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2023-08-05 15:23:46
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