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Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Im more curious how many are bots made to look like its booming with traffic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm one of those people, definitely not a bot. A friend with several invitations to the beta available offered me one a few days ago and then it was opened so I didn't need it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I hope you dont think I was saying it was ONLY bots. Ofc there are humans on there.

Im jc how many are bots.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

idk. After they dropped invite codes, they started requiring phone numbers for sign up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Because those aren't incredibly easy to spoof or anything?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can spoof caller ID but you can't spoof a number to receive texts to it. Can you imagine?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh actually it's worse than that. There are online companies that offer online SMS services that can receive messages from real phone numbers by essentially telling your carrier you want text messages forwarded to them. Obviously they usually make you prove that you own the number before requesting forwarding, but there's ways around that. I've known several people who've had their online accounts broken in to because someone hijacked their phone number's SMS in order to perform password resets or bypass 2FA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Bro what??

Telco needs to be replaced

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Losers are also scamming Craigslist posters. “Oh good I’ll be available at that time! BTW, I’ve been dealing with a lot of bots on here. Can you send me the code you’re receiving right now?”

(then you get a code from WhatsApp or something)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, they aren't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I registered with a VoIP number that a free app gave me. I doubt they're blocking all the freely available "temp sms" numbers out there.