Ed SolomonWell here’s a weird first legit post. Can someone please explain (actual serious question) how/why there are two fake me’s on this website already? These (below) are both imposter sites. Weird. Is there something I can do about this?
Also: hi!
lookitmychicken@EdSolomon
These both look like accounts that pull in a feed of your tweets from Twitter and republish them for people on the fediverse. Do the fake accounts just contain copies of your tweets, or is it some other content?
My guess is that some people who left twitter wanted to keep reading your tweets, so they set up these crossposter bots.
Christopher Snowhill@lookitmychicken @EdSolomon Several instances, including mine, defederate such non-consensual Twitter feed mirror instances, because of that very reason: They just mirror random Twitter accounts, possibly at the behest of random people simply submitting those accounts to the site for inclusion, without any consent from the owner of the Twitter account.
By "mine" I mean the one I'm using, not that I have anything to do with staffing it.