Most social media sites lack self-moderation, which leads to problems like this that aren't curable in the long term. Sure, Twitter shouldn't allow checkmarks t

Most social media sites lack self-moderation, which leads to problems like this that aren't curable in the long term. Sure, Twitter shouldn't allow checkmarks to change names, but there will still be bots. Facebook of all things is really the cleanest, since your "friends" on there tend to at least be acquaintances IRL and most of what you see just comes from them, but it's gotten corrupted a bit over the years. I've been developing a site a bit like Twitter except for sharing links only. If it had millions of users (which would take a miracle), it wouldn't have these problems. There are no top accounts, trending topics, follower counts, algorithmic recommendations, etc. Instead, you just follow whoever you know personally or seriously care about, and if you like something, you repost it since there's no plain "like." So you can get links from many hops away, but it has to go through a friend. This establishes a self-moderated network similar to how people in real life behave. In closed beta, I've discovered a lot of interesting content (mostly news) that I otherwise wouldn't have, but the project has ways to go.