On mastodon, I’m starting to be followed by accounts I have no relationship with at all (a famous guy I doubt would ever follow me, a supposed magazine about a subject I never talked about and with a name not really related to the subject of their posts…).
Is this a trend? Is it a strategy to get people to follow them back so they have more followers? Is this the fediverse version of spam?
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@Ninguem I imagine it's people simply wanting to see what you post.
Mainly I'd say it's the opposite of spam since their following you means your content gets to them, not the other way around.
But I'm reminded of the known issue of people having trouble finding content here. I can imagine that leads to folks following more strangers.
