Post #3475225
2026-06-29 00:48 UTC
@riverpunk@defcon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space @blogpost@tagpush.app
I'm never upset to be told that I've misunderstood something, we all do it and if someone didn't point it out then we'd never learn!
Alice says in the OP: “Today, an unknown bot swarm started using my name, boosting my posts, and inserting itself into communities I helped create.”
It's from that statement that I inferred that Alice had not followed anything that Evan had created...
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@LiamGilmartin@mastodon.ie 2026-06-29 01:11
@riverpunk@defcon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space @blogpost@tagpush.app ... then later Evan posted (see screenshot) that – I find this incredible – he's taking the fact that a instance/server has been set to be an open relay by it's admin as blanket permission to scrape any (possibly every) user on that server and to create accounts with similar names that replicate the user's posts, all without informing the user beforehand. I'm not that familiar with the other bots you mentioned, but this behaviour seems outside the norm.