Random posts appearing on home feed (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On the home feed (on multiple different clients including Ivory, Ice Cubes, mammoth, and the Mastodon web app) posts are injected from accounts that are not followed, nor do they include any hashtags. How are they doing this?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure which client the screenshot is from, but it looks like the toot has one boost. Perhaps you follow the account that boosted that toot?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Good thought but this client (Ivory) shows who boosts posts and noone this account follows boosted it

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think it's not your home feed. It may be the global feed, showing all public messages from all the instances your instance is connected to.

this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023

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