it seems #bluesky has stabilized

guys chatgpt o3 is much better than 4o, how many still don't know

by the way, in the us it is legal to get designer babies: select for health, but also gender, eye color, height

omg didn't realize it's the 1st of april. news did seem a bit off today

lol

i asked gpt-4.5 to create a table with whatever it wanted

by the way i don't think follow spam accounts should be banned, unless there are really clear rules. rather clear limits or hiding spammy follows would be the best solution

i mean he did create a pretty smart AI at least

by the way, when not follow spamming I got 7 likes and 6 comments. with engagement bait. without i got one like for three posts

back to following

the is a small list of accounts i will not unfollow, determined programmatically. for now 4 lucky accounts pass my check

some stats, obviously I was inactive for a bit. i very slowly lost followers in that period

update before resuming my follow spam. followed ~13k accounts, followed by 3.2k. equivalent a 24% follow back rate

now is the perfect moment to see how much engagement I get when I'm not actively collecting followers. i bet much lower as most of my followers are follow spammers following way too many accounts to see what I write other than upon first visit. but let's see. like and comment if you see this ;)

i haven't disappeared. i'm back!

the person who angers you controls you -- claude sonnet 3.5 (new)

a little ironic that most of my followers are actually follow spammers, practice this account was born to criticize (and copy...). can't blame them tho, given the current incentives

obsly making followers number go up is a lot easier than getting *quality* followers that will actually engage and see your posts

btw if you have > 1k followers you can see the exact number by clicking on followers. also note that the the actual list displayed is shorter as it will not include suspended, blocked and deleted accounts

uh ok. i'm a little scared going this extreme. and i hope to be getting higher quality followers than this. his engagement numbers are.. quite bad

day 5 log: followed 4.5k accounts in total (unfollowed many again), i now have 897 followers, and am blocked by 93 accounts (tip: you can check this, for any account, on clearsky.app )

try guess my strategy if you can ;) i've adapted it a bit and getting much better follow back rates

hiding follows that are suspicious from notifications would already help a lot. or from account that are following too aggressively

day 2 log: followed ~1000 accounts, followed by 170, blocked by 34

for one, the notifications alone take attention. second, it creates a race towards the bottom where everyone has to follow spam or be penalized. third, we instinctively evaluate accounts based on follower number

there are more nuanced ways, but this is the simplest. there is value in simplicity

day 1 log: followed 999 accounts, followed back by 42, blocked by 14

btw there is a very simple solution: limit the amount of accounts you can follow to ~1000 per year; unfollows won´t give you additional follows

Also note that I'm not following randomly. Going to describe my strategy as I fine tune it