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There are at least two accounts here that regularly follow me, unfollow, and then follow again in a few days. They have tens of thousands of followers, and follow also tens of thousands. I'm not sure what to do about them. Blocking seems so rude.

@szescstopni I disagree. Blocking is the polite thing to do in such an instance.

@szescstopni Outside of certain accounts (like media, government, etc), I don’t consider blocking rude, I think of it as basic information management and filtering. I block without hesitation for any reason — could just be I think it’s a sketchy account or that I don’t want to see their posts at all. That follow/unfollow pattern sounds spammy, they are just trying to get more people to follow them.

@cbdawson I know what they're after, but I sometimes see one account's toots boosted by people I follow and they're sometimes genuinely funny. So the people I follow are a good filter on their musings. This is what makes it a bit difficult

@szescstopni Yeah, that probably makes it harder. I’m still figuring out mastodon, but doesn’t seem like it has a great solution for something like this.

@szescstopni lemme guess: Low Quality Facts and Beautiful Anarkitty?

@szescstopni I called out the latter for doing that and it looks like they've blocked me so... problem solved?

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