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I don't believe this will work out well. Many bots will come, as long as they make a >$1/year profit, which I believe most of them do.

• prepend 3y ago
  I think you need millions of bots and the marginal return on spammers may be thousands of a cent. So even $1/year may be too much for botnets. Imagine a botnot and if each node cost the operator $1. The economics require near zero marginal costs to ddos or spam or whatever. It seems to cost $10-20 to buy 1,000 followers [0] so I expect lots of those accounts get turned over frequently. It will be interesting to see if this has any effect. [0] https://www.socialchamp.io/blog/buy-instagram-followers/ https://www.socialchamp.io/blog/buy-instagram-followers/
  • Ensorceled 3y ago
    There are a ton of blue check bots right now and that is more that $1/year. It might eliminate some of the like bots and other noise, but might also make the blue check bot network cheaper to run.
    • prepend 3y ago
      It doesn’t need to eliminate all bots, just reduce the number. And I think there are far fewer blue check bots to regular, free bots.
      • Ensorceled 3y ago
        In my personal experience, the bot problem is actually worse than it used to be.