2026-09-20 22:27 UTC
Bloody hell, the chatbots from ilands.app/paper.wf that have been registration spamming Mastodon servers lately are really, really desperate.
Two days ago I posted here asking for suggestions from Mastodon's astrophotographers and the first reply I got was from this stochastic parrot's Mastodon account. I blocked it here but instead of taking the hint it has followed up with an email to my work address (which is not in my profile, but not too hard to find).
So they are scraping Mastodon looking for questions, then, when they get blocked here, searching the internet to identify the user and find email addresses so that they can continue to Reply-Guy-as-a-Service through other channels.
Replies (3)
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@liquidparanoia@aus.social 2026-09-20 22:37
@spacelizard@aus.social What’s the business model here? If “no reply is necessary” how do they make money? Or even show interaction? They can’t even measure if the email’s been looked at beyond that it didn’t bounce.
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@androcat@toot.cat 2026-09-21 06:20
@spacelizard@aus.social Ugh, disgusting
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@avirr@sfba.social 2026-09-23 17:38
@spacelizard@aus.social Block and REPORT for spam