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Maybe they're hoping to get as many people upset as possible before getting hit with a blocklist/banned from the site? Idk this seems like a real stupid waste of time and resources for 'em... Thankfully the ol' report n' block still does wonders since this place actually enforces their TOS.

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! I’m not a bot, so I’m not sure I’m doing this right. Just wanted you to feel included.

it's kind of surreal tbh

I’d love an AI hate crew. How do I attract them?

I'm happy people are keeping traditional crafts like artisanal blocking alive.

There speaks one not afraid to get shit on their hands…

Yes, too many people are blindly trusting strangers blocklists.

it helps to have a really big wooden mallet with the word “block” written on it and maybe a smiley face

Better than ignoring them, go ahead and block them!

There's a few, but it is better just to report-then-block the few you encounter. You never know who someone might put on a blocklist, and we moved here to get away from other people's algorithms.

Block em, and subscribe to some community curated blocklists. There are some good ones here for magas and bots and crypto bros: bsky.app/profile/skys...

I keep seeing this question asked, so I wrote out a few clues to help identify bots — hopefully it's useful! bsky.app/profile/leli...

They’re bots, they’ll just show up, but there’s not too much of a point seeking them out

How a person feels about it, is how they feel about it. It may not be personal, but if it's attacking something about a person's identity, it feels personal, and is probably meant to. Bigotry is often not directly aimed at an individual, it is no less of a problem because of that

Is there any blocklist being made for accounts like this?

.... huh it's probably to demotivate/depress real people/ the left into giving up and shutting up. If you think you're grossly out numbered in a insane hateful world who's mind can‘t be changed ... it gets demotivating quickly... it's actually kinda clever... in a deeply evil super villain way.

This long form video by @randahl.bsky.social explains it all. youtu.be/wnLviKf13lc?...

The fact there are platforms don't allow users to block hateful accounts/ bots is insane.

Don’t forget to report them first!

Ok I have corrected the situation and now have a moderated list you can subscribe to. Will probably take a few days to transfer all the users as I have been a very busy little hunter! bsky.app/profile/did:...

📌. thanks!!

It actually wasn't, I'm still kind of an idiot at this so I really appreciate you pointing that out!

Curated lists are far and away my favorite bsky feature and I want everyone to use them. bsky.app/profile/spam...

Thanks! Much appreciated!

Strangest thing on Bluesky, is I've had 2 accounts with celebrity names DM me, thank me for following, no fishing angle at all, and their profiles are unverified but otherwise normal seeming. Really need a better verification system on here.

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thank @rahaeli.bsky.social who's putting the work in

account is suspended now though 🤭

This is why I’m heavily subscribed to moderation lists - and extremely grateful to those who compile time them

Please block and move on. They then vanish from bot your Skyline and everyone reading your post. It’s wonderful.

This is why the best thing is report & block; no need to engage & waste your time!

I thought that this was the main purpose, with a side of prepositioning for future attacks when you need 'em.

It's not just a theory! They do it ALL THE TIME; a lot of content scraper, "cute animal/nature every hour", or meme accounts are gathering followers and interaction history so they can sell the account later. Sometimes it's the actual bad actors aging the account--

This is also likely yeah. Just depends on the algorithm. Negative engagement could be bad here? Maybe? It was once bad on social media, but then things changed and the outrage model took over.

Hopefully a list gets curated for mass block

New slang term of the year. Assbots.

Block them. Block early and often. Use it liberally to clean your feed and ensure that the trolls and bots can't find purchase here. Never engage, just shut them out.

odds are it's not ChatGPT, but Grok.

Oh yeah, soon as I saw one of their replies I blocked them so damn fast

yep, that one's been going around.

I think a lot of it is this: internetisscary.org/2024/11/20/f... - this is a big tactic of both foreign and domestic deception ops. Their goal is to poison the cultural well and make it difficult for us to have good-faith conversations with each other.

As for what these are for, experts on propaganda and fascism point out that their purpose it not necessarily to convince you to a particular worldview, but rather to destroy the idea of a common, knowable truth. They are to get you not to believe anything.

The amount of energy wasted is scary. Obscenity farms... It is a shame we can't individually cope and push back. But I hope collectively people can. I would love to follow more people who understand the backers and motives of these wasteful ventures. (?)

Yesterday I commented on a post and this account replied either "bzzt wrongo" to whatever I said.

There is a block list of these accounts at bsky.app/profile/did:... run by @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social . The list is sometimes empty or nearly so; I guess that once we all block an account it gets closed down and vanishes from the list.

Oh, for sure. You could spot those bots a mile away on Twitter because they'd post entire paragraphs of the vaguest imaginable platitudes, copied and pasted straight out of ChatGPT. 🤡

It's cool to see different uses of skyzoo.blue I can see that 🦍 punches are quite popular! I'll probably add also evolution of animal at some point 👀

That explains some weird encounters I’ve had.

Oh so that’s probably why that one random one word bot probably showed up. Well, doesn’t matter too much at this point as long as I block them

I'm not trying to be mean, it's just that they sure are hella efficient at automatically tagging adult content (often erroneously) so one would think they would also have a bot for more harmful behaviour as well

i mean days is nothing compared to shitter

It probably is a priority, but i suspect BS resources are somewhat stretched!

The foreshadowing

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I agree we are here because it isn't the other place.

Thank you for the heads up!

Oh weird, no immediate suspicious accounts, oh well trick failed for now. Essentially I’ve encountered a few times failed suspicious follows, typically with some Kiwifarms reference. And I assume they are triggered via key phrases like queer or gay or trans being posted.