On mastodon, I’m starting to be followed by accounts I have no relationship with at all (a famous guy I doubt would ever follow me, a supposed magazine about a subject I never talked about and with a name not really related to the subject of their posts…).
Is this a trend? Is it a strategy to get people to follow them back so they have more followers? Is this the fediverse version of spam?
Are you sure it’s not a fake scam account impersonating him?
If not he’s probably using some growth hacking tool to follow a bunch of people at once to boost his numbers.