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It's fascinating that the two example spammers in that post have women personas, whereas a huge chunk of the problem is men (generally actual men, not fake pers
by geofft 7y ago
It's fascinating that the two example spammers in that post have women personas, whereas a huge chunk of the problem is men (generally actual men, not fake personas) trying to hit on women. It's not clear to me Keybase believes that's actually a problem or, as the original article says, working as designed.
- dewey 7y ago100% of the spam messages I receive on various platforms (Especially IG) are fake women personas so I'd say their example is pretty spot on.
- geofft 7y agoSure, but, is that Keybase's problem? Keybase and Instagram are very different apps with very different target audiences, and Instagram didn't have an uptick in unwanted messages after changing their user base via a a cryptocurrency drop. (See also jakelazaroff's subthread.) If Keybase, an app that is (or was) about encrypted messaging and replacing the PGP web of trust with something more meaningful, is assuming their spam problems look like the spam problems of Instagram, they are probably going to solve the wrong problems.
- buzzkillington 7y agoIt's fascinating that you think the problem of being uncomfortable is worse than the problem of cat phishing.
- adamsea 7y agoUncomfortable?
- geofft 7y agoDon't feed the trolls.
- geofft 7y agoThere's two senses of "worse" that you could mean. If you mean "it is worse to be on the receiving end of the first than the second," then I think that's an accurate statement of my beliefs, but I don't think it's super relevant. The claim I'm making is "There is a worse outbreak of the first on Keybase than the second," which is a testable claim (that I might be wrong about!).