If you have just joined mastodon, a) welcome, and b) the very first thing you need to do is add data to your profile that makes it clear you are an actual person.
I am sorry that we live in this time, none of us want this, but sometime it just be's that way.
We are all hounded by bots, scammers, spies-for-cause, and spies-for-money, all of the time. We simply cannot assume good faith from anyone who has left no trail, or who has left a trail they are not willing to share.
@GeePawHill I'm worried this will encourage oversharing increasing #surveillance for activists, and in this political climate we should all aspire to be surveillance targets, 2ndly it encourages vendor lock-in to specific #mastodon instances at least until profile migration is added and 3rdly, from what I've seen of agentic #LLM s they probably alr can create a convincing mastodon post history if you exclude personal photos and videos which again can both be bad for #privacy #deadinternet