I had a couple of new followers in bluesky. A new follower DMed me. He asked how I was, I said I was good. Then he asked where I was from and when I said I prefer not to say, he said he understands and that he wanted to know more about me. I told him my interests and such and didn’t give any important information about myself. He too told me about his hobbies. Then he asked about my location once again. When I declined once again he said that he understands “not being cool enough to say where you are from”. That was an odd thing to say. I got creeped out and blocked him. Is this normal? Why would anyone want to know about each other’s location?

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    Hmm, can real users be tagged as bots? Surely they’d complain and have it fixed quite quickly?

    I saw this bot reply and just instinctively downvoted and blocked it, can’t stand Reddit/Lemmy bots that don’t serve a useful purpose (like unit conversion or haiku’s) haha.

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      1 month ago

      Anyone can label themself as a bot in the Lemmy user settings, sometimes users do so mistakenly

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        Aaaaand that’s apparently what I did. My excuse is I’m old and an idiot.

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          No problem, I’ve seen it happen a few times so I thought I’d ask 😄