There used to be some Twitter bot that would congratulate you on getting X number of likes on a post (back when they were still stars). I never blocked an account faster in my life.
Oooh, favstar bot I think it was called…. Always awkward when it was a post about a tragedy or a deeply somber reflection and the bot was like “5k!! Great job! 🏆”
Yep, actual block works as usual (even better on Bluesky) so they can no longer interact with you. But they're still in your follower lists, if you unblock them - they again become follower.
As I've said before, I don't give a rat's ass about followers. I'm not playing that here. I'm here for politics and resisters. Art, music, pets/animals. I can't do the toxicity anymore.
What is the point of this? Having 50k followers who don't care about your posts and never interact with you is like having no followers at all. What happened to these people's brains?
Their brains were fried by social media sites that let you monetize your follower numbers and have algorithms that prioritize accounts with large follower numbers. They haven’t noticed that it doesn’t work that way here.
Well, that sent me down a rabbit hole I can never unsee! That's not blue maga, that's straight-up fascists & insurgents... self-labeled and talking the talk.
With my Megabot 9000 Secret Santa™️ Sharter Pack, you to can get a brazillion new bots for your collection!
And on a more serious note, my starter pack has 5 fast food restaurants, and two dudes named Mark!
This. Two people I follow post constantly about starter packs and boosting people's numbers. Isn't it better to have smaller numbers and have conversations with people?
Yes. At least that’s why I’m here, to have conversations with people and learn new things. I have no idea how many followers I have nor do I care. I can see how it was a thing in the other place because it was monetized, but here? 🤷🏻♀️ I rather interact. The only starter pack I used was the #CorgiCrew
I’m still mad there are people here begging for their lives and instead of helping, these people are paying for auto follow services. I’m sure people are doing lots of other things with their money but this requires folks to see & ignore genocide here but embrace follow counts. Very Black Mirror.
Tony HQ is the type of fiend who convinces you to snort Dramimine one night at the tail end of an all-night cocaine bender, and all it does is light your sinuses on fire. For a very long time.
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(le sigh)
(cant deny it was fun)
These guys are testing the scalability of the federated system.
They will be targeting 25M followers in the near future.
And on a more serious note, my starter pack has 5 fast food restaurants, and two dudes named Mark!
Why do I want to follow someone who's constantly posting about that anyway? It's boring & pointless.