"Bluesky has a large number of followback accounts. Some of these accounts have already done things like switch from Democratic Party memes to neo-Nazi propaganda when they had enough followers." 😬 #spambots

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/07/a-polite-disagreement-bot-ring-is-flooding-bluesky-reply-guy-as-a-disservice/

A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky β€” reply guy as a (dis)service

On the Bluesky social network, you may notice a lot of drive-by responses from accounts that rarely or never post β€” they just reply to other accounts. The reply pattern starts with a phrase like β€œI…

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@ai6yr Exactly according to plan. All hail the algorithms.
@ai6yr blue skies turning gray……no thanks I’ll sit it out.

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Funny.

When I suggested this might be possible a few weeks back, a bunch of people piled on and argued with me about it.

@ai6yr The cool thing is they get added to the nazi block list and wham they get insta-blocked by everyone who subscribed to that list with the 'block' option. It is a clever way to distribute moderation duties (of course the list mods can become enemies and then you'd need to unsubscribe from their list but its a different take on things and I appreciate the attempts at innovation.)
@ai6yr Long ago on old Twitter, there was an β€œFBR” thing that seemed harmless and a way to resist in early 2017, that quickly turned into a kind of targeting lure. Ran into something similar when I first set up my alternate Bluesky account, quickly unfollowed when I finally remembered.

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"switch from Democratic Party memes to neo-Nazi propaganda when they had enough followers"

We could call that the Gabbard Maneuver.