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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now they let you hide your history, making it harder to find the bot accounts.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Literally the only purpose of doing that bs. A small percentage of users even went to the profiles to prove our case. That’s why they started that bullshit scout looking at post history makes you a loser stalker. Jokes on them i don’t give a fuck of some Nazi thinks I’m a stalker.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Ironically, if you just assume every blocked history is a bot account, that's better accuracy than before trying to puzzle out the actual history.