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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That’s what he said.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

Spam bots pursuing an audience shouldn't be a surprising thing. Even glorious fediverse valhalla is battling with them.

The difference between the Threads & Twitter situations is that I'm inclined to extend a lot more leeway to an engineering team that's less than two weeks into a new platform, versus one that's been around nearly two decades and is suddenly dealing with issues because the owner decided to haphazardly fire the teams responsible for maintaining those areas.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when all you could find before that was corporate accounts, what's the difference?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

High-end human-powered spambots.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

spambots that you can micromanage

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good! May they make Threads a miserable place. 😍

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

May it burn brighter and die faster than YikYak.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a more miserable place.

Fixed that. I can't imagine a platform less appealing than Threads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What I say to that is reject modernity, revert to phpBB forums.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just like the eventual rapid fall of L'manberg, albeit not as fast as a series of TNT and wither bombardments...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Who actually manages to look at 10,000 tweets a day like holy shit do these people do nothing but scroll Twitter for 24 hours a day?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why is it that I immediately assume at least a sizable amount of chatbots on threads were either created, directed, or funded by Elon and his financiers.

Of course there are going to be chat bots swarming any social media/platform with enough real participants, but it's not like Meta is new to social media and I would assume Meta has sophisticated detection systems available to them for exactly this type of thing (and probably has their own chatbots and a bot whitelist)

Maybe the chatbot AI revolution will make social media unusable.

Either way, I would be shocked if chatbots could exist on either platform in a meaningful way if Meta/Twitter actually put reasonable efforts into ensuring all content was generated and shared by real people.

I'm saying this without a clue how anything actually works, don't take my crackpot theories too seriously

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If you build it, bots will come. 'Twas inevitably a more pressing concern when you suddenly have 30 mil+ signups in less than 2 weeks.

Hopefully our admin communities will handle our bot waves strongly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be surprised if one day it comes out that these spam bots are paid for by competitors

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty bad. So much for the advantage it had.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lololololol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

yuck at musk's reply though 💀