I am pausing my activity on Warpcast for the foreseeable future due to the current issue with large number of bots.

Recent posts over the past few months have received hundreds of likes and recasts coming mostly from bots.

Just fyi all your followers got this notification, they likely did last time you posted as well. That could partially be the reason for the increased engagement – I’m sure there are some bots too though.

no it’s actual bot accounts the giveaway is always the repost to like ratio

examples from a recent post

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

I don’t like to see fake followers / fake engagement numbers bc it ruins the experience on other social media platforms. 

I regularly monitor performance of accounts or channel on X and TG for certain people suspected of cheating so it’s become noticeable if it’s not organic.

Sorry to see you go.

Can I ask how likes and recasts from bits negatively affect you?  Do you get notifications or something?

It’s a genuine question.  I actually find the bot problem here less annoying than X so your perspective is surprising.

I want wherever I post to be rewarding in some way (whether to grow my brand, meet more crypto people, etc) and seeing so much fake engagement / incorrect numbers completely ruins that for me. 

EX: This is a few of the many bots on a recent post (limited to not including more screenshots)

Researcher at MIT Media Lab | Creating futures | https://cyrus.website/info

Looking at your posts I wonder how much of this feeling is an issue of bots vs. a lack of genuine engagement. 

Don’t see many of the top 1000 accounts interacting with zach here, whereas on X he’s royalty.

Would turn anyone off.

pointless ramble :: most memes are original ::

it’s sadly worse than X/Twitter ever was

comms manager shit posting <3

https://linktr.ee/cbucc

I am not sure if it’s airdrop farmers or a VC / team trying to artificially boost activity

Was waiting to see if the bot activity would be removed for those posts and it wasn’t

I though you had already paused your activity here. Your last cast was 16 days ago…

Are you going to be active on 🟦 ☁️ - this is you, right?  
https://bsky.app/profile/zachxbt01.bsky.social
It would be great to get your posts there. 🙏 🦅

BDLR CREATR COLLECTR  Creator of Thingies 🖼️
🏗️ Metaverse Bldr  
📸 Photog #Brookpix 👀 
@theWIPmeetup🔺@CultCryptoArt 👁️ brookhawk.bsky.social

Very sad to hear 🥹
I have zero problems with bots here, but sure, much smaller account than yours...

I feel spam measures are much better now but I guess you have bigger reach leading to bot targets.

I'll be here waiting until you come back. Thanks for everything you do.

Send your bots my way, I could use the engagement and ego boost 🥰

That's the downside of being big account but tbh the number of bots here is very high 🫡

I never reply or use this app much but just saw this pop up. You will not be forgotten.

Glad more people are slowly bringing light to this