Bluesky Safety: Let’s talk about how we use invite trees to track spam bots on Bluesky 🧵:

Let’s talk about how we use invite trees to track spam bots on Bluesky 🧵:

To join Bluesky, you need an invite code. Some of you joined the network via the waitlist; others through invite codes from friends. Your invites and invite tree are private data.

When we investigate spam networks, we use invite trees to identify where they came from. Often, an entire network of spam bots comes from the same invite tree. This makes it easier for us to track down and ban these accounts.

If you notice spam accounts, you can report it to us, and any additional context you add helps us investigate!

I have two accounts that are flagged as spam as my followers: @90spiictures.bsky.social and @catswithaura.bsky.social would be great, if these could be removed then

they are spam. if you see an account mass following people and posting nothing but recycled content, that account will likely be sold down the line to someone who needs an account with followers and an older join date. that’s how all those crypto people suddenly popped up on twitter.

The crypto people after Musk took over just went nuts I've blocked so many cryptos 😕

I'm so green, I never contemplated people do this. You learn something new everyday! 👍🏾

I know, I know.

Interesting. On twitter I 've been followed by a few which I resuse to follow back as they haven't posted anything. Even so, they've gained several followers. Would this be the same thing?

Sorry to warm up the topic. What's the best way to deal with it? Is blocking the best solution? Would something like a handle history help in any way?

You're following almost a quarter of the entire userbase with the 90s pics account, and another 100k with the cats one. Both follow me. The spam warning is justified.

Did... Did you read my post correctly? I said, they follow me, too. *Not* that I own these accounts. It would be great, if they could remove these accounts.

I like how that "90s anime pictures account" hasn't posted anything in 11 days now. I guess they know the jig is up. 😂

The first account is NOT flagged, btw!

not anymore now, it still was until yesterday, probably got removed some time today

Thanks for the heads up

Thank you for highlighting them. Both followed me early on, and I followed one back. No longer.

We can block spam accounts and won't see them anymore. Both listed above are what's called scraper accounts I think because they take material and post but do not attribute the creators or owners of the material they are using.

I have them both 🚫

i blocked.

Their were a couple that were identified when I first got on here I blocked them but your second one I did not have it blocked it is now tho thanks.🤟

These follow me too. I don't follow back, but they've been around for ages

Where do we report? I made a mute list of a botfarm all following each other.

The three little dots at the top of their page.

I did see that right after I posted originally, thanks.

Ok bsky.app/profile/warr...

These are bots and I wish BlueSky would do something about them. Incongruous words as a display name (also unrelated to handle), posts where the entire post is the link, very few followers, and just a list of random words for a bio. BlueSky could combat this if they wanted to...

Zigzag Quadrant would be a great name for a nuevo polka band.

I think @nature.bsky.social is also one.

Here is a famous transphobe from Twitter coming here to poison this platform as well: bsky.app/profile/vall...

bsky.app

Here sre some screenshots from Twitter for context bsky.app/profile/acci...

Vall Mikhaleff (formerly Oratorio Directa) aka ретуиваше анти-транс съдържание от Libs of TikTok, беше пуснал една безумно подвеждаща анкета дали целокупния туитър е съгласен деца да си променят пола и, по свои думи, пишеше книга по въпроса. А, и тая красота за транс вируса 🙃

This one @thebighowler1.bsky.social stole a code that was meant for a friend of mine, it seems he's got a lot of other accounts

Thanks Cassandra I have blocked 🤟

Is it possible to ban IPs? Because Brazilian Bluesky is facing an upheaval of impersonators, and we have reasons to believe that is one or a little group that's causing that.

Someone is using his own invite code to create accounts and impersonates others! It's a sad life. 🙃

I've been blockng them when they turn up. Should I pass the IDs on to you?

I noticed this, yesterday. All of these accounts liked my post immediately after posting.

Here is a link to the original post… bsky.app/profile/tang...

I hope this means the annoying two word spam accounts which have been flooding the site lately.

I tried to send an invite code to a friend and this person somehow snagged it… looks like a bot. I should have DM’d the code but sent as a reply on X to them..

@animal.bsky.social

+1

Great way to police this trash

Could you please add feature “seeing invited by who”?

i well ty for being here for us

@tangibletones.bsky.social 👀

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