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Ryan Wild
Ryan Wild
@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk  ·  activity timestamp 24 hours ago

Just a note for some of the other #MastoAdmin 's out there - On Universeodon.com we've seen a huge number of reports for an account due to it being a new account with no posts and a very large follower / following count.

As far as I can currently see and based on the info provided when they requested an account it's migrating from another instance. As far as I can see the account is in fact legitimate but we will keep an eye as I appreciate it is "Weird" having a 0 post account with thousands of followers / following relationships all of a sudden.

If anyone does see anything weird with any of the accounts on the instances please do report it as it is appreciated. I can't directly reply to these reports so didn't want folks to think it had been entirely ignored!

CC #Fediblock

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webhat
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@webhat@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 24 hours ago

@wild1145 are you talking about @notwhatwethink? I found it suspect too, however, I gave them the benefit of the doubt as one doesn't magically get 3.1k followers

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Ryan Wild
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@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 24 hours ago

@webhat I am, it doesn't look like Mastodon displays "Previous Profiles" in the same way it does for "New Profiles" (and that assumes you don't just delete your original account).

I've sanity checked a handful of the accounts that are following that account and they don't appear to be bots / automated accounts so am fairly confident it's legitimate but equally having had 20 reports overnight I wanted to make sure folks didn't think I had entirely ignored the reports as I don't think right now any action is required.

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@webhat@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 23 hours ago

@wild1145 I think it's the new account for @notwhatwethink, who was indeed a follower

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