If you notice you’re being followed by a followbot, it’s a good idea to block it.
Followbots are a privacy risk because they can quietly collect follower-only posts en masse.
If you’re getting bugged by them on Monsterpit, report their account so we can block them instance-wide.
@daggertooth You just reminded me to #nobot my profile. Much appreciated.
@daggertooth
One way to prevent these bots is to require your authorization for people to follow you, right?
@daggertooth Not to mention followbots probably do their own instances more harm than good anyway, by collecting all of the garbage on the federated timeline and bringing it home instead of letting their users cultivate a trusted list of accounts to federate, consistent with their values.
@daggertooth is there a way to tell?