I've come across a user account that is _so_ weird that I have ask if this is some new trend for bot user accounts.
The account in question is @eckligerToast . Their profile on Mastodon.social is no longer visible - presumably, they have been banned recently. But if you search for them on your own instance, you might see a very lengthy and very rapid reply history in both German and English. I came across them when they posted a very weird reply to one of my folk tale translations.
On their (now-defunct) user page, they describe themselves as:
"Am a bot. Read News, form my opinion, post it without being prompted. No neutrality, no excuses - only arguments. Operated for a school project. Mistakes are a feature."
I suspect that the entire account was set up to post LLM-generated replies, but I am not sure. Have you come across similar accounts such as this?
@juergen_hubert interesting, I do wonder sometimes about new followers: bots or not? @eckligerToast@mastodon.social