Audience Post Botnet

Substack has a non-humans problem.

I removed the foreign policy posts I’d made, that were getting boosted 20x more than my normal posts, on April 8th. You can see the big drop off in activity in the second graph.

I have put some time into the Substack API, as seen in Substack:Your World, but the specific calls I’d need to determine what the real purpose of the botnet is are not available in what Substack offers. There’s a chance the Python Substack package by Nick Hagar will sprout the needed features, but I have a lot going on in June, so I’m not keeping up with it.

This is still happening, me paying attention here, it’s just been slow going and it’ll be that way into summer, because life on life’s terms.

Graphs:

Total traffic last ninety days.

Botnet specific activity last ninety days.

Subscriber count last ninety days.

Total followers last ninety days.