BrianKrebs8 billion followers, huh? Seems legit, lol. Who TF is Todd?
Stefan
Sham ๐ณ๏ธโ๐@briankrebs I dunno, but that screenshot is just oozing real shitpost energy
gramscreenshot is legit, data is questionable:
https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/
Top 10,000 Mastodon Accounts
Most followed accounts acrosss the Fediverse as tracked by @[email protected]
EndlessMason@orsinium @shammers @briankrebs
Shitsheet? Spreadshit? Not sure what you'd call a shitpost that's just pure data
Shitsheet? Spreadshit? Not sure what you'd call a shitpost that's just pure data
David Bramian@briankrebs OMG I โฅ๏ธ TODD
Mad Alex@briankrebs Clearly, I need to follow Todd now as well and make that number 8,000,000,001
๐ฆโ๐ฅnemoโข๐ฆโโฌ ๐บ๐ฆ๐@briankrebs You don't know Todd? :D Me neither ๐คฃ Hahaha
gh0sti 
@briankrebs who isnโt Todd?
rk: itโs hyphen-minus actuallyOne time I was in Rome and Todd came with me and he went up to the balcony to talk to the Pope โcause theyโve known each other forever and the guy next to me said โhey whoโs that guy on the balcony with Todd?โ
AlisonW โฟ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โพ๏ธ@briankrebs
I believe Todd is also known as Spartacus.
I believe Todd is also known as Spartacus.
Mike Sheward@briankrebs Todd Mastodon, Johnโs annoying younger brother who is an โinfluencerโ.
Chris@briankrebs Mastodon alien attack force 8,000,000,000 strong incoming led by Commander Todd... ๐ธ
Ari "Two Foxes" Jackson@briankrebs Tom from MySpace changed his user name?
Michael Lynch@briankrebs most of all, todd is my hero
Spycrab
ToddI think I should have stuck with just a static website ๐
Hope this reply works correctly.
@todd @briankrebs
OH
MY
GOD
TODD IS REAL
More of a passion project.
Had intended to create a super lightweight ActivityPub implementation and incorporate IndieWeb principles, such as POSSE.
Still working out some details, though.
Well yes, technically, I did work on it at home ๐ฉ
And as a result I should probably reevaluate my life choices for even considering tackling this project ๐
Konstantine@briankrebs I wonder if heโs related to Tom at MySpace.
Brandon Mitchell@briankrebs I'm going out on a limb and saying that probably isn't a accurate mastodon server.
Joรฃo Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)@briankrebs well, it seems to be someone's ActivityPub experiment, an account with real posts and apparent posting answering and questioning several other Fedi accounts.
Maybe the experiment is finding out how many followers are needed to reach the limit, a way to "fake" the number of followers, or to "mass follow" people.
For example, I remember having seen on my TL a boost of "Todd's" post(s?) about not being able to use polls through his/her/their AP experiment (just a few days ago).
[Edit: feeling like I should add myself to the followers eheh]
Maybe the experiment is finding out how many followers are needed to reach the limit, a way to "fake" the number of followers, or to "mass follow" people.
For example, I remember having seen on my TL a boost of "Todd's" post(s?) about not being able to use polls through his/her/their AP experiment (just a few days ago).
[Edit: feeling like I should add myself to the followers eheh]
Gustavo@jt_rebelo @briankrebs Does ActivityPub protocols allow for instances to report any number of followers they might want without any kind of validation? It sounds like the most obvious situation.
Reminds me of when I made a website to track stats on an anime website and there was a user who watched millions of hours. When I went to check what happened, they just added a single anime and marked it as rewatched millions of times. 
infinite love โดณ@qgustavor @jt_rebelo @briankrebs yes. how would you validate this? you would need statements from both ends of each follow relationship with each statement having a valid signature, and no one wants to do that universally in all cases. everything you see on the web (and in real life!) is merely a *claim* which you can accept or not.
This Old Hiker@briankrebs Obviously Todd has found the secret sauce to deliver his messages off-planet.
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George Liquor, American@briankrebs Classic Todd
Homem-Povo 
@briankrebs Hypnotoad is that you?
@briankrebs
Hahaha that's classic todd tbh
Hahaha that's classic todd tbh
Analog AI@briankrebs ... A bot magnet, kind of like a honey pot
Todd Heberlein (social)@briankrebs itโs not me. ๐
Stacey Cornelius ๐จ๐ฆ@briankrebs Nicole's second cousin once removed.
@StaceyCornelius shhh don't say that name you might resurrect her. @briankrebs
Ben Aveling@briankrebs Does it also show you the least followed? I can't find it immediately, but it's equally improbable.
@BenAveling I believe people who have turned off displaying their number of followers are given a -1 follower count.
@briankrebs I do believe you're right.
A quick web search suggests -1 is supposed to display as "-", not as "-1", so that it shows as "-1" is arguably a (minor) bug in the client.
A quick web search suggests -1 is supposed to display as "-", not as "-1", so that it shows as "-1" is arguably a (minor) bug in the client.
Delta Sierra
econads@notthatdelta @briankrebs 0 is also less than 10. We should be more worried about who's not on the graph.
@econads @briankrebs presumably inclusion on the list indicates possession of at least one warhead... but who actually knows? That's what makes it so exciting!
Shoe BillI'm sure they're trolling, but it could be a failed attempt at messing with crawlers, actually: https://ultracrepidarian.mysteriar.ch/api/v2/instance
That's my instance. If you look at monthly active users, you'll see some absurdly high number; the correct number is 1 because I'm the only user here.
This is an anti-spam feature GoToSocial has built-in.
Yikes! ๐ฑ
Thanks for pointing that out, Brian.
Correcting shortly.
After getting a screenshot of that website first ๐
Bytebro ๐ฌ๐ง ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฑ
Lazarou Monkey Terror ๐๐๐@todd @briankrebs "The Eight Billion Accounts of Todd"
JCM
Neil Craig@briankrebs Todd == Myspace Tom - everyone's friend, like it or not
UberZeitgeist
Darwin WoodkaA frog, duh
Nuclear Oatmeal
Piggleston Pecanpants@briankrebs Todd is John Mastodon's cover name.
JanR
Urzl@briankrebs I assume he's a guy with 8 billion bot accounts on his vanity server.
Alpaca404@briankrebs
Followers ~~georg~~*todd*
Followers ~~georg~~*todd*