Mutual aid spam is becoming a problem on the Fediverse.
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This is why I turn off Google spam filtering. My attention is worth nothing so everyone who can message me should be able to.
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Imagine being so dead inside that automated emails and human beings occupy the same part of your mind
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Yup. At least a decade ago I used to explain how important interoperability was to legislate for, and used this as the main example of why. Networks are better for everyone when there is no lock in, and the waste of competition for eyeballs could be avoided. It's sad that most people truly don't understand this.
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It's not really an "alt" account, I just don't think of user accounts as an extension of my identity, and change very regularly.
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I guess in this case it's OP that labeled it as mutual aid rather than the requester.
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Imagine being so naive that you think that's a real person.
But if we're not being snarky for a moment... It's trivially easy to create a bot to do exactly what this person is doing. Spam others with begging for money and a bunch of sob stories.
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Funnily enough, I haven't seen many instances delicated to just spam, like there was conerns about. Its mostly from .world or mastodon.social
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What in the honest fsck was the reasoning behind that?
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Like tumblr, "you don't understand! 90-ghost says i'm real!!"
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And then we're back to email.
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Is it an alternative account you use for differing purposes than other accounts?
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This is the only account I've used since I created this account, and I don't presently have any intention of using any of my other accounts again at any time.
