86ed another 80 signup requests from this ‘Automated protocol deliverability probe’ bullshit.
What’s the game here? What are they getting out of this?
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@fname
Are they scraping posts?
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@TrueNorthSpice
Unlikely. And unnecessary. You don’t need an account to read Mastodon posts.
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@TrueNorthSpice
It seems to be something about generating signup request emails. They’re not having success though so why persist?
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@fname
they are bots?
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Well, yes.