conspirator0, 28 days ago

The spam posts did not originate on Bluesky; they were originally created on Nostr, pushed to Mastodon, and then subsequently to Bluesky. Although Bluesky quickly removed the spam, the original Nostr posts are still available for study.

conspirator0, 28 days ago

The spam network consists/consisted of (at least) 228 accounts, each of which posted either two or four times on May 11th, 2024. All of the network's posts are either "remember to always vote trump" or "hello <X> world", where X is a random adjective (or the word "adjectives").

table of the network's spam posts and the number of times each was repeated

conspirator0, 28 days ago

Substack article with more detail on this spam network (and some Python code): https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/federation-and-political-spam