When I logged in first a few accounts like this followed me in a few hours and Cats of yore is among them. I thought all of them is automated accounts because they all followed me after a short time.
I get that
I'm don't buy into the whole social currency "I follow back" stuff.
If want to see more of their content, I follow.
If they're weird about it, I block so I don't have to see them again.
What worked for me: Pick a few people you are friends with/fans of and just follow everyone they're following. Then unfollow anyone who annoys you. It filled my feed with great conversation and many of them followed back.
I had a skim of the accounts first to see if there were any I wanted to follow and, so far, no. I can always revisit to see if I want to unblock some of them after they've posted more content
I've found, with hardcore trolls, it's best to preemptively block the followers to prevent a pile-on later
It's more about what I'm into at the the time. When I'm reading up on a topic I'll follow accounts that provide information but after that I'll unfollow. If I've interacted with ppl or they're rl friends, I'll keep them always. If 5 ppl post the same stuff, I'll follow one of the five.
Weird - I definitely was being followed by a bunch of "animals are funny" type accounts, but when I went to look at my profile to block them, they've already vanished - presume the admins are banning them already
If they never credit photo's author, never include alt-text, and follow way more accounts than follow them - those are sure signs it's one of those spam accounts.
I didn’t even look. I don’t need a daily dose of flowers, not those kind at least. Also blocked something that just had fake lame daily affirmations that looked like they were lifted from fortune cookies. It’s just called III.
These are scraper accounts. They take images & don’t give credit to the OP. Then they usually sell the account when they get a big enough following. In case you don’t know why you should block.
Okay, so no credit to the OP of the images... but then they... sell the account? To someone who... then does the same thing under the same nick?
What sense does that make unless they can change the nick and just claim the followers as their own?
I agree with the block - again, just asking. ✋
It was easy to change the handle even on Twitter, and it's even easier here.
Account is sold to someone who would be pushing some selling spam e.g. crypto scam.
Certainly makes sense that a scammer would be the buyer - I guess I didn't realize how easy it was to change one's handle... thought that once you pulled the trigger at registration, that was it.
Guess those of us who aren't scammers would never think to look for the feature! 😄
Appreciate you. 👊
