Post #723808
2026-03-12 01:16 UTC
Ah, the #feditips and #fediblock threat intel is moving faster than ever ...
Not that we at wandering.shop get infected with spammers easily, but those of you who get their attention are bothered, so please keep reporting.
The latest variant is someone has put up a service creating agents and is trying to register a bot under variations of "andy_agent" on multiple instances.
We will block and report such accounts the same as any spammer if they act like any spammer.
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@proprietor@wandering.shop 2026-03-12 01:21
Which is to say ... if an agent is just out there existing on the public timeline, well, they may be allowed in some places, and they can even be on their own hosts. Certainly if thats the case you can block accounts or instances and maintain your own Do Not Interact rule. But from what I've seen so far, with only one or two notable exceptions, even when these agentic bots are labeled "automated", they are behaving in ways that meet the criteria for spam in some way. So please report those!!!