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A lot of the time this is just AI-generated trash, not an actual person linking to their stuff. They are both scammers and spammers.

Townflex is AI plagiarism repackaging trending stories to siphon clicks.

I haven’t deep dived into the cybersecguru but there isn’t a single named human being associated with that site. One “person” claims to have written maybe 15000 words of journalism in the last 24 hours and doesn’t want credit. This is from their About page:

My name is The CyberSec Guru, and I’m the founder of The CyberSec Guru. I’ve been fascinated by technology and online security since my High School days.

Again, I haven’t spent a lot of time looking, but this is probably AI slop.

This happens all the time. They fly under the radar for a moment until someone notices them. Then their accounts get banned.

Stermy4u was banned for promoting their AI plagiarism site.

Have you reported the other user? It’s way less likely anyone will notice if they’re not reported. If you report a post make sure to say that the user is a spammer so mods/admins will look at account activity.

I think the W3C SocialWeb Working Group is working on Federated Identity right now to incorporate into ActivityPub.

Yeah, I think people often assume that “good” federation means even user distribution. But the power of federation is that you can leave if you want to and no one can weaponize your social graph.