@pixelfed There is no fediverse project that can detect follow bots or like bots, and doing so would require a lot of data and refactoring for it to be useful, even IG can't do this at scale

We can use innovative techniques and behavioural analysis to help detect this, but it remains a challenging problem

"Buy mastodon followers" will become an industry of shady services with sleeper accounts on various fediverse instances (they might already exist)