sotolf4d ago

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.

Show threadSimon B4d ago
@sotolf is this "Gaza verified" spam btw? I'm getting plenty of those. Block and reporting those
Show threaday
@foobarry @sotolf what does Gaza verified mean?
Mar 26 at 4:47pmWeb
Show threadSimon B4d ago
@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.
Show threadsotolf4d ago

@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.

Show threadSimon B4d ago
@sotolf @ay I blocked that guy but I can't block the unsolicited requests from all these accounts. It's really spammy
Show threadsotolf4d ago
@foobarry @ay Yeah, it is can't deny that.
Show threaday4d ago
@sotolf @foobarry ah I see