Today I got my first bot follower on Mastodon. Is there a way to remove it? I only see block available, but I’m not 100% sure what that does and I’d prefer not to have a porn account follow me. Any help?
Today I got my first bot follower on Mastodon. Is there a way to remove it? I only see block available, but I’m not 100% sure what that does and I’d prefer not to have a porn account follow me. Any help?
Blocking is the way. Not only will the bot not appear on your followers list, it won’t be able to get any post that you put out. I would recommend locking down the ability of people to follow you, because unlike Twitter, the fediverse isn’t a popularity contest and it really doesn’t matter if you have a ton of followers or only a few. Go to Preferences->Appearance and click the check box marked “Require follow requests.”