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@dansup @pixelfed follow and like bots are a lot easier to detect then it seems.
They have usually one of 2 purposes.

1. gather followers for selling it later

2. execute the Spam via Name, Description or pinned post.

The first group is not very much annoying for most, as many do not realize its spam.
The second is easy to detect, because the spam and especially the url is following an easy detectable pattern

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@dansup @pixelfed they already are, already were before the announcement.

but for now they are often blocked very fast on instance level.
And with this, and the potential of many instances with public registration might deploy spam detection, they will go below the profitability threshold fast enough

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