2026-10-09 22:09 UTC
Replies (7)
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@INeedMana@piefed.zip 2026-10-09 22:51
It’s a feature Piefed has. The idea is that if you were a bot, the operator would most probably not pay attention to DMs and not click the link. So after 24h the originating instance can mark your account as bot. AFAIK it does not federate between remote (not yours) instances
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@jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2026-10-09 23:48
I understand the reasoning but the implementation is weird, I would never click on a link from some random instance without having interacted with it, I would have to assume it is phishing. On top of it if my client doesn’t show those messages I would not even know that I got one.
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@wakest@piefed.social 2026-10-09 23:43
this seems like a really weird way to piss off a bunch of people. I think this practice might need to be rethought.
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@SourGumGum@lemmy.world 2026-10-10 07:13
I had this too,m. It was also sent after I had questioned one of his posts, felt suspicious It’s a huge breach of Fediverse etiquette
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@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2026-10-09 22:55
From what I understand, there's been an uptick in accts which use scripts to share posts, yet do have a user presence to create comments. If you go back to the last PF public update, these accts are now being recognised as "reposter" accts to separate them from bot and fully human. 4000+ posts in 2yrs is a lot of posts, so it's maybe not surprising that your acct got flagged and this message went out to you. Some users are naturally not going to want to see bot accts, and some reposter accts, so the new feature allows them to filter such out if they want.
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@soratoyuki@piefed.zip 2026-10-10 11:44
I really enjoy Piefed, but I don’t think personally investigating every potential bot account in the Fediverse is a reasonable (or even desirable) expectation of it’s developer…
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@rimu@piefed.social 2026-10-09 23:15
Not compromised.