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Comment by ganoushoreilly | Hacker News Reader

Funny enough i've been getting multiple daily notifications of people following me on reddit.. Never used that feature.. nor does anyone I know use it. All the names are clearly generated too. Is it a 3rd party? Is it Reddit trying to create user metrics as a social platform? It's all suspect at this point.

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In my experience it's all OnlyFans porn spam, which I doubt are bots created by Reddit.

Maybe for you. Those girls were genuinely interested in my thoughts on philosophy.

Just share your credit card and they'll share even more... thoughts.

careful you're putting descartes before the wh... nevermind

Thanks. This made my day.

Wonderful!

Funny, i get multiple daily notifications for suggestions on subreddits to follow. I'd love if we could just cut out the middleman and get the users following you to follow the threads that get suggested to me instead.

As others said, those are non-Reddit-operated spambots. But as for the names, any new Reddit users gets a WordWord1234 type name now, and you have to go out of your way to change it, so there are also a lot of legitimate users using those generated names.

I assumed this is simply spammers as they accounts are ~always deleted quickly.

I know I have accidentally followed like half a dozen people. Looks like the UI is a bit different now but it used to be way too easy to click that button.

I noticed the same thing this past week.

I am not very active, but people are following me daily.

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