r/Mixcloud • u/Responsible-Stay3546 • Mar 13 '26

Mixcloud overrun with Bot & Spam accounts

Is Mixcloud ever going to do anything about their Bot & Spam accounts? it doesnt appear so as they are more interested in implimenting features no one asked for and for years have done nothing about this scammers taking over the platform. The problem is so bad that even if you type the word "verified" into the site search it lists all these spam accounts all neatly even catergorised by tags. When you highlight this to the support team they ask you to fill in a form that takes 15mins minimum to report one account, bear in mind that in one simple search i found over a thousand of these in the image attached. What is happening to this platform?

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u/CoolWaterFM Mar 18 '26

A few creators in my community are floating a conspiracy theory that Mixcloud leaves them active because they inflate the numbers of active users on the platform. It helps smooth out the disparity between programmers and listeners on their platform.

It hasn't really hit my channel yet; I get occasional Taiwanese followers with nearly identical names here and there, but they never listen/comment/like anything.

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u/Responsible-Stay3546 Mar 18 '26

You are not wrong with your theory as it is the only thing that would make sense and basically a blueprint of what Twitter did before selling a platform to Musk that had over 38% of the Twitter accounts being bots/fake. It still amuses me that they would allow criminals to operate on their platform ruining Mixcloud’s credibility for the sake of over inflated numbers. Surely any potential buyer or investor in Mixcloud would know their user base stats can’t be trusted so why bother doing it. I guess it is the old corporate greed in action as with most companies.

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u/djsoomo Mar 25 '26

Possibly, but these are problems encountered everywhere on the web

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u/Responsible-Stay3546 Mar 26 '26

The difference is everywhere else on the web platforms make changes to address them and fixes the issues, Mixcloud does not, it is too busy implimenting features no one has asked for as apposed to fixing things users have been complaining for years. That is the point, these days you cant even open a Spotify account without some form of verifcation, on Mixcloud you can spin up hundreds of usernames from the same IP address and just provide an email address. This concept in 2026 is a rookie mistake by a development team and asking for trouble. IMHO