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Overnight 5 different accounts, from 5 different instances, with no profile pictures or previous updates, followed me. They're not identified as bots.
Anyone else experiencing anything similar?
I mean, they might just be drawn to my wit and erudition, but somehow I'm sceptical.
@DaveHiggins Thanks for the confirmation of my suspicion. I tend to block mass/fake followers on the principled basis that they get on my wick, so it's useful to get a bit of triangulation data.
@howfar I encountered the same thing this morning.
One of them had been booted from their instance by the time I checked the profiles, so seems to be some species of mass follow scheme.