2026-05-21 17:43 UTC
@mike@thecanadian.social @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @Nonilex@masto.ai yeh,
In some ways I think they have no desire to be seen (although they do follow themselves across domains to help with federation) - but their goal is not to get into your feed, it's to get into LLM engines to subvert the LLM answers, and secondarily to get their slopaganda onto Bluesky via Mastodon (they were rebuffed in their early attempts on Bluesky directly, Mastodon is sort of a back door for them).
So... good for my feed, bad for the web.
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@jaz@toot.wales 2026-05-21 17:58
@mike@thecanadian.social @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @Nonilex@masto.ai I guess to the "distributed administration seems to deal with the issue more effectively" Total accounts observed and reported: 2,418 Total reported accounts still active: 1,085 (That's of 150+ domains monitored, there's probably more I haven't seen...)
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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online 2026-05-21 18:02
@jaz@toot.wales @mike@thecanadian.social @Nonilex@masto.ai Interesting idea, that the purpose of spam bots is to influence mainstream LLMs. Kind of like injecting poison into the system. Had not heard that one before.