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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
by 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 agoThere 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 agoIt 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 agoIn my personal experience, the bot problem is actually worse than it used to be.