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Mai F @maifowler.com · 13/11/2025

or some of his friends

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 21/07/2025

guys chatgpt o3 is much better than 4o, how many still don't know

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 03/06/2025

exactly, and even if they keep following it's kinda pointless if it's just to inflate follow numbers

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 05/04/2025

my impression is that technically it's quite easy (most genetic tests can predict eye color with quite high accuracy), and i'm not aware of it being illegal in the us. tho i agree that the more interesting and promising use of embryo screening is for selecting based on health

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 05/04/2025

it seems possible: www.fertility-docs.com/programs-and...

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 05/04/2025

it's currently legal in the us, and obviously feasible to detect gender, for example

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 02/04/2025

by the way, in the us it is legal to get designer babies: select for health, but also gender, eye color, height

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 01/04/2025

omg didn't realize it's the 1st of april. news did seem a bit off today

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 09/03/2025

you can still follow thousands of account per hour, within those limits

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 08/03/2025

i mean that is how companies works, most things you can't create on your own

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 08/03/2025

i asked gpt-4.5 to create a table with whatever it wanted

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 24/02/2025

it is just a minimal script. even in case you don't code it should be trivial with the help of AI

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 24/02/2025

by the way i don't think follow spam accounts should be banned, unless there are really clear rules. rather clear limits or hiding spammy follows would be the best solution

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 23/02/2025

i mean he did create a pretty smart AI at least

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 23/02/2025

how much did you follow that they banned you?

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 23/02/2025

but would you still add them if they would not see your follow? in that case there will be no chance of them adding you back. the solution then is, for account that follow a lot, to hide the follows to other users

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 23/02/2025

the reasons are above in my post. but you would be right if high amount of follow would be hidden to other users, so you can still follow, but it won't create spam, and people will not use it for follow back farming

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 22/02/2025

by the way, when not follow spamming I got 7 likes and 6 comments. with engagement bait. without i got one like for three posts

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 19/02/2025

please do not take it personally if you are not in it. the algorithm is ruthless

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 19/02/2025

the is a small list of accounts i will not unfollow, determined programmatically. for now 4 lucky accounts pass my check

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 18/02/2025

do you tend to use the discover feed, or rather custom ones?

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 17/02/2025

some stats, obviously I was inactive for a bit. i very slowly lost followers in that period

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 17/02/2025

update before resuming my follow spam. followed ~13k accounts, followed by 3.2k. equivalent a 24% follow back rate

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 17/02/2025

how can you see posts of all 2.7k follows?

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 07/02/2025

haha, you will get better

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 07/02/2025

looks i caught some legit users as well :D

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 07/02/2025

wow the algo is still featuring me 🎉

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 07/02/2025

now is the perfect moment to see how much engagement I get when I'm not actively collecting followers. i bet much lower as most of my followers are follow spammers following way too many accounts to see what I write other than upon first visit. but let's see. like and comment if you see this ;)

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 07/02/2025

i haven't disappeared. i'm back!

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 28/01/2025

the person who angers you controls you -- claude sonnet 3.5 (new)

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 27/01/2025

mai works in mysterious ways

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 27/01/2025

don't worry, just showing how broken the system is and that you can collect thousands of followers with a few scripts, and hopefully pushing for some change in how easy it is to exploit this

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 27/01/2025

so we should disable all spam filters, because i'm mass emailing valuable spam emails about important ideas, spam filters are quite arbitrary and counterproductive

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 27/01/2025

that's good but it is still follow spam. reality is: people would not do it if the follows were hidden and there is no chance of follow back

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 26/01/2025

4 now my main topic ;)

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 26/01/2025

but in brief: i think it is a problem that it is this easy to collect followers. people will exploit it, and in fact are doing so en masse. i hope to at least explose the issue, and discuss some solutions. hope bsky will do something about it

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 26/01/2025

my account is quite open about what it's doing, is it not?

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 26/01/2025

such is the plague of follow spam. i do hope that something is done against it, at the platform level

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 25/01/2025

you are more likely to get engagement and be followed back by mass following, and there is no real drawback to the strategy

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 25/01/2025

a little ironic that most of my followers are actually follow spammers, practice this account was born to criticize (and copy...). can't blame them tho, given the current incentives

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Mai F @maifowler.com · 24/01/2025

obsly making followers number go up is a lot easier than getting *quality* followers that will actually engage and see your posts

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