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What is this? A trend? (lemmy.pt)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Ninguem@lemmy.pt to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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On mastodon, I'm starting to be followed by accounts I have no relationship with at all (a famous guy I doubt would ever follow me, a supposed magazine about a subject I never talked about and with a name not really related to the subject of their posts...).

Is this a trend? Is it a strategy to get people to follow them back so they have more followers? Is this the fediverse version of spam?

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

I think it’s a symptom of new people joining the platform without really understanding exactly how following people and following hashtags on mastodon is different than how it worked on Twitter or Instagram. I wouldn’t immediately suspect anything nefarious.