This does not look like human behavior. Again today, my Mastodon account is followed by dozens of new anonymous accounts, and they all follow exactly 40 other accounts.
@renchap I do not want to be reading tea leaves here, but can you understand my concern that this could be a bot net system generating spam profiles in bulk?
Can you think of any technical explanation why I am seeing so many similar accounts following exactly 40 other accounts?
The Best-Selling Historical Fiction Books of All Time
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"PULL THE PLUG!
DEFUND TESLA!"
#TeslaTakedown #TeslaChainsawMassacre #Tesla #fElonMusk #AdolphTitler #ApartheidClyde #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #nazis
Good morning!
Today I passed a couple out walking when I went out for my early-morning walk. With the temperature in the 30s F, the woman was wearing a puffy coat with the hood up and tied tight around her face. The man wore shorts and a light hoodie, hood down. I had to laugh.
My attire was much closer to what the woman was wearing.
Annie won't eat the special food. It's heartbreaking to hear her cry while sitting next to the full bowl.
I'm going to call the vet again today to see what she has to say.
Have a good one, my friends.
#Today
Hello and a good meowing everyone! 
Have a most wonderful day and stay safe ♥️😸
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We have Spectrum, and I had to disable security Shield just to play the final HOur beta, or connect to masonasons.me
I have had abusive emails, comments, social media posts, and entire articles. Today I received my first abusive _source code comment_. 😁
github.com/Versoft-Software/Fr…
Free95/src/theregister.txt at dev · Versoft-Software/Free95
Free95 is an open-source windows-compatible operating system. - Versoft-Software/Free95GitHub
This seems to be a bug on the official app so switching to another app should solve it.
I would strongly recommend using a third party app anyway, most people who try them prefer them.
Jeep Wrangler Unlimited - das klassische praktische Auto für eine Stadt wie #Mannheim🤦
Naja, ist nun geklaut. Vermutlich mal wieder #keylessgo ftw?
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Thursday March 13. 2025
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#Emacs is great. Adapting #orgmode is great as well. It delivers a ton of useful features for my everyday work which I could not do without or with any software alternative.
However, with a sufficient complex setup, upgrading software causes things to break. This time: 
28.x ➡️ 30.1
Currently, tag completion of org headings is broken, linking to contacts is broken (helm-org-contacts), some larger Org buffers can't be saved (without switching to text-mode first), my magit-status window doesn't work and I'm not sure what other stuff is hidden below that doesn't work. 😩
I guess you can't have such an excellent custom environment without that pain. 😢
for the amateurs, how would that help in these kinds of cases?
@mousebot @publicvoit type checking isn’t really for end users, it is for the developers of packages. So if an update occurs, if for example, some API in Emacs shifts from version 29 to version 30, the type checker will be able to tell developers of packages like Org Mode or Magit which APIs broke, things that maybe are missed by the unit tests that don’t have 100% coverage.
The type checker could have other goals as well, for example, rolling back a package installation if it can be shown that the upgrade could cause some things to break. It depends on the goals of the type checker, what problems we are trying to prevent, and how we can go about proving through types when the thing we are trying to prevent happens.
Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind space.com/space-exploration/ja…
(Pretty wild theory! "I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole...") 🌌
Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind
"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole."Robert Lea (Space)
Good morning lovely people 💕💕
A spring time #mugshot to brighten your day.
Another Thursday knit and natter group this afternoon! A few of the ladies are asking me to teach them #crochet which is interesting 🤔
Whatever your day holds I'm sending you lots of love and hugs 🥰🥰🤗🤗
Executive Producer Dennis Shirk talks with Ars about the state of the game.
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/03…
we traded
[floppy disk noises that make you afraid the system is gonna eat shit]
for
[laptop fans that spin real hard when you load a goddamn website to read an article with worse affordances than you used to get out of an ascii text file with mangled line endings]
and where has it gotten us?
You don’t need to be Jewish to apply.
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A new day. A new chance to succeed.
Some days, I got nothin'.
Or at least feel like I do.
In truth it's never true even if I tell myself it is.
One positive thing. Every morning. Day after day.
Relentless.
Just one small thread to hang a day on.
I write it down and send it out to the world.
And in the doing, I find something positive. Sometimes hope. Sometimes peace, in 500 characters or less.
Even on days I got nothin', I have that.
I hope you have something, too, #today
Gerrit Venema 🇪🇺🌍🍉
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Accounts named "NameLotsaNumbers" are almost always bots. But bots created by a single user to flag particular keywords coming from an account (yours) that concentrates on a particular topic. So when users mention a particular topic they were set to follow, all of the accounts follow at the same time (thus the 40 follows.)
If I had to guess, "Kololo" is the parent account (no numbers in name.)
Parade du Grotesque 💀
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •tootbrute
in reply to Parade du Grotesque 💀 • • •Randahl Fink
in reply to tootbrute • • •Parade du Grotesque 💀
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •As a user, you may be happy.
As the moderator of another instance, please believe me when I say I am fed up with the lack of basic organisation from mastodon.social.
As I have said recently: "How come mastodon.social accepts 5 to 6 accounts, all of them named elon_musk_xxx without ever suspecting a thing?".
These guys are only interested in having a lot of users, they outsource their moderation to all the other instances.
@tootbrute @renchap
Parade du Grotesque 💀
in reply to Parade du Grotesque 💀 • • •Please don't take it personally: nothing against you specifically.
@tootbrute @renchap
Randahl Fink
in reply to Parade du Grotesque 💀 • • •@ParadeGrotesque I do not take this personally. But comparing mastodon.social to Twitter is a bridge too far.
On Twitter you can persecute minorities without consequence. The moderation on mastodon.social is leagues above that.
@tootbrute @renchap
Magiskeld
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •DanieruOtakuBoy
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •What could help would be to only allow a following after approval since only serious ones would apply for following acceptance.
To block the source of such accounts would require investigation, MSocial may not have the possibility and/or time to do this.
@renchap
Renaud Chaput
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Skoobie
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Magnus Ahltorp
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •There are of course many bot accounts, so that could be the explanation for these, but if you are part of a starter pack you will get many accounts following you that follows the exact same list of people.
I can’t find a starter pack at fedidevs that contains you, and as far as I know they are the largest collections of starter packs, so it’s a less likely explanation in your case.