When an account is followed or unfollowed, a notification may broadcast to the account. Services that provide this, are GINAbot or the busy.org site for example.
When beembot is following me, i will receive a notification like:
- busy.org
- GINAbot
- steemd
Follow/Unfollow notification can be prevented by using beem and by creating the follow ops in a special way
Follow / unfollow operations are custom_json operations, this means they will not be checked when broadcasting. When a follow/unfollow operation is embedded into a list, notification services will not notice, as they do not recognize them as valid follow operation.
beembot is currently following me:
Lets beembot secretly unfollow me using beem (notice the double [ and ]):
from beem import Steem
from beem.account import Account
stm = Steem(keys=["POSTINGKEYBEEMBOT"])
account = Account("beembot", steem_instance=stm)
what = "" # "blog" for follow
json_body = [['follow', {'follower': 'beembot', 'following': 'holger80', 'what': [what]}]]
stm.custom_json("follow", json_body, required_posting_auths=[account["name"]])
The operation was sucessfull:
Link to steemd
steemd does not recognize the valid unfollow op:
I did not receive a notification from GINAbot or from busy.org.
Let's secretly unfollow all followed accounts
beembot is following three accounts now:
Let`s secretly unfollow all in one batch by broadcasting a valid list of unfollow operation embedded into a single custom_json operation:
from beem import Steem
from beem.account import Account
stm = Steem(keys=["POSTINGKEYBEEMBOT"])
account = Account("beembot", steem_instance=stm)
following_list = account.get_following()
json_body = []
what = '' # unfollow
# what = 'blog' # follow
for following in following_list:
follow_op = ['follow', {'follower': account["name"], 'following': following, 'what': [what]}]
json_body.append(follow_op)
stm.custom_json("follow", json_body, required_posting_auths=[account["name"]])
There is a maximum custom_json size, this example may not work with many accounts in following_list. It worked for three accounts:
The code of GINAbot, busy.org and steemd may be adapted, so check first if the secret follow/unfollow operation still works.
i use the steemify app and when i see an follow or a unfollow is comment and try to build a relationship or ask why they unfollowed. I learn from that and also thank always. have a great thursday.
greetsz from holland
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