Lion Cassens
lion-c.bsky.social
Lion Cassens
@lion-c.bsky.social
Researcher with a passion for cycling 🚲. Currently interested in data science, noise pollution, machine learning, edge computing and open hardware.

Pursuing a PhD in applied machine learning and smart sensing for noise pollution monitoring 🎓.
But somehow he likes China's government, or what?
February 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Grundsätzlich schwer zu sagen. Zwei Möglichkeiten:

1) Die Folgen tausenden (>100,000) Accounts und gewinnen dadurch "back follower". (komisch, aber nicht verboten)

2) Bekannte Persönlichkeiten, die von X gekommen sind und daher ohne Beiträge viele follower haben.
December 10, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Do you have a handle of some? Would like to take a look.
December 8, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Auf jeden Fall ein Fake-Account (siehe Antwort an OP)!

Ich denke aber nicht, das der zum gleichen Netzwerk gehört - da diese Bilder von Instagram gestohlen wurden. Das Ziel kann aber natürlich das gleiche sein.
December 8, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Eines der Fotos zeigt auf der Uniform den Namen "Hufschmidt". Schnelle Google Suche bestätigt deinen Verdacht: Diese "Christine Wagner" existiert nicht und hat die Bilder geklaut.
December 8, 2024 at 11:48 AM
4/ Some sources said it has been up to 50 accounts, but currently I cannot find those accounts on Bluesky (perhaps already blocked?).

See for example this list: bsky.app/profile/lars...

Thanks to everyone who helped/helps shining light on this!
Es sind noch ein paar mehr schon/noch hinterlegt bei vanillasky. click
December 8, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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Es sind noch ein paar mehr schon/noch hinterlegt bei vanillasky. click
December 8, 2024 at 2:09 AM
3/ The 9 remaining accounts stopped posting shortly after my initial thread and have not posted since. Until then, these 9 made 182 posts: bsky.app/profile/badl...

This network was easy to find due to the common URL. However, it is likely not the only attempt to build a German speaking AI-network.
And just to quantify the OPs claim that Bluesky is being flooded with German speaking bots.

This tiny network hat 19 bots, which posted a total of 182 posts (at least the 10 bots that are still active).

That's not quite a flood. Pretty sure as the elections come closer, we'll se more activity tho.
December 8, 2024 at 9:33 AM
2/ This is less than it seemed, based on how the replies to these news articles were dominated by the network (now often called vanillasky network).

However, the network was likely still being developed.
The oldest account first posted 4 days ago, while approx. half started posting 2 days ago.
December 8, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Hi Robert, ich hatte selber auch nicht mit so viel Aufmerksamkeit für den post gerechnet und kann deine Verunsicherung daher verstehen.

Falls noch zweifel bestehen, gerne über meine Arbeits/Uni-E-Mail Kontakt suchen (kann via Google gefunden werden).
December 8, 2024 at 8:45 AM
The accounts were less just a few hours/days old. Roughly half have been deleted by now - so it seems BlueSky is doing a good job!

They might still rely on us for reporting suspicious activities though.
December 8, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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And just to quantify the OPs claim that Bluesky is being flooded with German speaking bots.

This tiny network hat 19 bots, which posted a total of 182 posts (at least the 10 bots that are still active).

That's not quite a flood. Pretty sure as the elections come closer, we'll se more activity tho.
December 8, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Die bots aus dem thread haben mit niemandem interagiert.

Rein technisch dürfte das aber Möglich sein. Fliegt aber ggf. schneller auf, wenn die Antworten weniger Sinn machen.

Das Hauptproblem ist, das die mit der Zeit besser werden könnten.
December 7, 2024 at 11:27 PM