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Why some Mastodon accounts 'have' the same number of followers from Twitter? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is one from many examples.

I understand that this bot account mirrors the tweets into Mastodon, but how is it normal that it also mirrors the number of followers? Is it a bug?

If you check their followers list, they have a few hundreds at most.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a bug. Also not a feature. Somewhere in between.
It's just a number in a database. If you are the server admin, there's no reason why you couldn't fiddle with it. When anyone asks for the profile, server sends what's in the database. They're doing the same thing with the Joined Date.

If it wasn't a bot specifically mirroring another platform's stuff, that kind of manipulative behavior might rub other server admins the wrong way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the explanation! It seems logical now, considering they host the server.