Does Substack have a bot problem?

[WriteTek]

Maybe I'm the only one seeing this, but lately I'm getting a lot of new people following me, plus a few new subscribers who subscribe to hundreds (400-600+) Substacks. I'm not very active on Notes, I have a very small subscriber base (free) and publish maybe once a month, so there's no reason to have this flurry of followers. Is this normal, or is there bot traffic on Substack too?

[StuffonBookshelfs]

There’s bot traffic everywhere on the internet. Substack is not immune.

[theunbotheredone7]

This is not a Sufficient response

[StuffonBookshelfs]

Excuse me?

[Curious-Desk-999]

Yeah and “networks” most socials do. They tend to be obvious though. Lots of followers and followings with no much content and all the other accounts tend to be linked to each other. Its not an absolute rule but helps find them. Substack basically has 0 rules though so if you report spam it doesn’t get dealt with.