Just got a notice that I am being followed by a bot that no one follows and has never posted anything. What does that really mean?

@BobStep Could be that it’s collecting/archiving your posts. I’ve heard of instances which have bots which follow you so that they can slurp up your timeline and archive it etc.

There was a brouhaha a while back about such an instance, and they had an account called “Everybody” which would follow you. I blocked that account. One of the few I’ve blocked on here …