alt Hacker NewsThere is bots everywhere, it has nothing to do with the platform, it has to do with attackers having an incentive to do mass account farming, no platform is secure against it.
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rglullis • today at 12:35 PM
Super easy, just make a web-of-trust type of thing: messages are only visible to those who already vouched for you. Otherwise, you pay $0.01/per message/per user reached.
simianwords • today at 10:52 AM
not really. there are easy heuristics to filter out bots with good confidence. FWIW i don't see any bots posting anything in my feed
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With banning and deboosting they need to be very accurate but with filtering they can be more liberal in excluding