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Elena Rossini ⁂@_elena@mastodon.social (2026-07-10 21:07:55)
An update: I wonder if #agenticAI has anything to do with the uptick in suspicious, bot-like accounts that have been following me lately.

One such follower had picked as username "agent_test".

I like that I can manually remove them. I guess I'll need to go on a cleanup spree soon 🥲 

And yes I turned on manual approvals...
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Renaud Chaput@renchap@oisaur.com (2026-07-10 21:10:38)
@_elena it’s not new, it’s getting worse, and there is no real good way to detect this without impacting potential real users. It becomes easier when they start to spam, but when someone signs up you have, at best, an IP address (which is most often a random ISP somewhere in the world through a proxy/botnet) and an email address (recently, often from outlook.com). If you start mass-actikg on this you will very likely block real humans.

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Elena Rossini ⁂@_elena@mastodon.social (2026-07-10 21:14:03)
@renchap yup I completely understand. 

I love all the options that Mastodon gives us - like turning on manual approvals, easily removing followers, etc.

I suppose I'll have to see these as bad weeds that I need to eradicate regularly while tending my lovely Fedi garden 🌿✂️ 💚