Mastodawn

I'm still rejecting 5+ follow requests every day from people who haven't read my text about me not accepting following requests from people I haven't interacted with and who I don't have something in common with.

I sometimes feel a bit bad about it, but if we have nothing in common, and we have never interacted it often is hard to figure out if the account is real, that there is a person behind it etc, I don't report these, because that wouldn't make any sense, but it's kind of weird, some times it feels bottish when I get 6 follow requests from the same account.

@sotolf don't feel bad, they could be mostly automated or they just clicked "follow" because your profile was recommended when they created an account. there is nothing wrong lol

@Stellar Yeah, I'm having a feeling that they are scanning who boosts or answers to some specific people and then just follow everyone there :p

I'll just keep the shields up :p

@sotolf @Stellar i also have people whose post i boosted once requesting follow :)

@xarvos @Stellar Yeah, with those I'm a bit more lenient usually if I can recognise the person, then usually I go through their latest written posts and read their pinned toots and description and let them in when I feel like they are a real person and someone who I feel would fit in :)

@sotolf here i am rejecting one every other week and already thought it was odd

@sotolf is this "Gaza verified" spam btw? I'm getting plenty of those. Block and reporting those

@foobarry Not only, but many of them yeah, I'll probably go for the 1 grace period then block if they keep on nagging. I had one that appearantly read my post with interacting, just liked the top 5 posts I made and went on like that is enough of an interaction to me :p that's not an iteraction, that's just someone clicking a button on my post without even reading them, which I knew because one of the posts was in Norwegian which I'm pretty sure they don't speak :p

@foobarry @sotolf what does Gaza verified mean?

@ay @sotolf I get a load of unsolicited follows from people claiming to be in Gaza requesting money. The profile only exists to request money and they often link to a "Gaza verified" website in the bio.

@ay @foobarry It's aral's project where he verifies accounts held by people in gaza, since they are having a lot of issues because of the ongoing genocide by israel there are a lot of people in need that are doing what they can to get in some cash, now that their worklplaces and lives are wrecked, they do write a lot of begposts or stuff, but I mean, what else are they supposed to do, aral tries to help verify people so that you can know that they are real people who are actually in gaza.

It's just happening quite a lot that they keep on following people for reasons unknown to me, you probably wouldn't see it if you don't have follower requests up.

@sotolf @ay I blocked that guy but I can't block the unsolicited requests from all these accounts. It's really spammy

@foobarry @ay Yeah, it is can't deny that.

@sotolf @foobarry ah I see

Mark Krueger 3d ago

@sotolf I have a theory that people see a bunch of interesting toots and click request follow. Then go about their days and forget. Then a few weeks later, again, they see cool toots and think...wait, did I forget to follow this person? And they click request follow again. And the cycle continues. The problem is you have too many cool and interesting toots :-)

@markkrueg But not interesting enough to look at the profile

Here a pinned post regarding followers,
I will accept a follow if we have been interacting and you pass the sniff test.
If we haven't interacted, and I don't find much that we have in common in your profile or comments I will most likely not accept.
I'm not here to get "internet famous" I'm here to have some fun, and I'm being cautious for multiple reasons, so think about it before requesting a follow, or you might be surprised why I don't accept the request.

I don't know, it's clumsily written, it's me after all, but I do think it gets it across at least :)

Mark Krueger 2d ago

@sotolf I think it’s clear and well written. I especially like the “internet famous” part; as it really gets to the difference between the fediverse and other social media sites/platforms.