I started trying to do FavStar type thing to amplify entertaining, lower followed people. I ended up including a "legitimacy score" that checks for people following thousands of accounts, but way fewer followers (and other metrics).

I'm testing an auto-block just for myself, and might release it.

Hi! There isn't a concept of "shadow banning" here. There are "block lists" but you aren't on any.

The big difference is Bluesky doesn't have preset algorithms that can be used for farming engagement, like other places. Sadly, it means lesser known people may not get seen, but it helps with spam.

Still no other logged in users except me, but I also don't advertise or market or anything, so not unexpected.

Also, at the time, there were few if any bots. Finding out WHO is doing the fav would be good.

For example, a post with 100 favs, but all of them are from accounts with an equal 10k follows and followers, is probably not legit.