Tag: spam

Spam in the firehose, part IV

it’s really not that difficult to upload profile imagesOver the last 48 hours, swarms of remarkably similar and remarkably boring spam accounts have been following various Bluesky users at a…

Spam based, interested in spam

we are totally real people who come from countries and are interested in thingsOn Tuesday, April 8th, 2025, someone created a large yet strangely low-effort network of Bluesky spam accounts…

Spam in the firehose

not a literal depiction of the Bluesky firehoseEvery public action on social media platform Bluesky is published via a stream of events known as the Bluesky firehose. This can be…

Spam in the firehose, part II

we are totally real people who happen to have identical photographsA recent article on this blog discussed multiple groups of accounts identified by scanning the Bluesky firehose for repeated biographies,…

Spam in the firehose, part III

this may look like a bizarre version of Tetris, but it’s really 1134 Bluesky accounts with default profile imagesSometimes, spam network operators put a significant amount of effort into making…

Spam in the firehose, part III

this may look like a bizarre version of Tetris, but it’s really 1134 Bluesky accounts with default profile imagesSometimes, spam network operators put a significant amount of effort into making…

Spam in the firehose, part II

we are totally real people who happen to have identical photographsA recent article on this blog discussed multiple groups of accounts identified by scanning the Bluesky firehose for repeated biographies,…

Spam in the firehose

not a literal depiction of the Bluesky firehoseEvery public action on social media platform Bluesky is published via a stream of events known as the Bluesky firehose. This can be…