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Bard spotting on Bluesky 06 December 2024 
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Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0.bsky.social):
Every public action on Bluesky is available via a stream of events known as the firehose. By monitoring the firehose for repeated text, it is sometimes possible to quickly detect groups of spam accounts as they spawn.
Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0.bsky.social):
Monitoring the Bluesky firehose for duplicate biographies over the course of 5 days yielded 2234 fake accounts of various types, including porn, crypto spam, and account selling operations. Over half of the spam accounts detected belong to a single network.
Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0.bsky.social):
The largest network detected by monitoring the firehose consists of (at least) 1155 accounts with 80 distinct biographies of the form "passionate about in the field of "". To date, none of the accounts in this network has posted.
Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0.bsky.social):
All of the accounts in this network were created between November 30th and December 3rd, 2024. Most of the accounts in the network follow a handful of real accounts; thus far, there is no discernible pattern to the accounts that the spam accounts follow.
Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0.bsky.social):
This experiment turned up several smaller networks as well, such as this group of followback patriots named "Daisy" with stolen profile photos and two distinct repeated biographies.
bsky.app/profile/cons...
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