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woke up to 400+ bot followers. this sort of experience kills user trust on a platform. until this is fixed I’d rather go private and use something like follower requests

making /internetfriends and other 1-bit things

https://bsky.app/profile/stevecrosby.bsky.social

Turned it on after the first wave of bots. notifications are working great now

got priority mode on now so I won’t miss the real ones. the bot count is well over 500 now at a rate of around 1bpm. bot per minute 🙃

i literally dcd with the person in that photo yesterday

📐Designer
👨🏻Dad
🌮Loves tacos 


for sure, in the short time I’ve been on fc there’s been so many good conversations and connections with talented folks on here

Yeah, the bots are definitely picking up. However, I feel like real engagement still bubbles up to the top better here than anywhere else

I can see you on 'suggested follows' page, maybe its the reason

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ah! thanks for for sharing. was wondering how it was happening.

still a lot of bots, but hopefully this means there’s some art collectors in the mix

priority mode and power user filtering is great, but I would hope it’s a handled at the protocol level. it will only become more difficult to build clients if real users don’t trust interactions, content, links, or their own audience

Do you think the solution is filtering out this sort of stuff client side (ie priority mode) or something else at the protocol level?

streamm

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ha hey streamm, sorry you got caught up in the bot screenshot. appreciate the work you’re all doing for video content 🙌

Somewhere there’s a bot deployer going:

Enable priority mode from notification settings.
So you'll only get notifications when power users follow. For other users you'll need to go to follows tabs to see.
Out of two priority mode i find notification one actually more useful.

bots everywhere i'm no pb holder but i can get double digits followers these days ofc most are bots...smh...