search

bluesky-social / atproto

Social networking technology created by Bluesky
Other
6.18k stars 433 forks source link

Limit invites for spam-following accounts #1449

Open skunecuscre1 opened 1 year ago

skunecuscre1 commented 1 year ago

There's currently a bunch of content reposting bot accounts that spam-follow everyone on the site in an attempt to gain followers.

While these accounts may not be explicitly breaking any rules, I still think it would be a good idea to stop them from getting more invites, otherwise their numbers will keep snowballing until there's a ton of them, and I think it'd be a pretty bad look to have a users first experience upon joining the site be gaining 100 followers from bot accounts.

My proposal is to automatically freeze invites for any user who follows more than, say, 1000 people on any given day. I'd also consider expanding this to the account that invited them.

intrnl commented 1 year ago

This feels more like a policy-related issue with how Bluesky operates rather than something that should be enforced within the codebase