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Does anyone have any suggestions for how to design a Twitter clone that can prevent this at any cost? it seems like a pervasive issue in every single social net

• lijok 2y ago
  Half baked thought; what about a linkedin style connection graph where your feed is only populated by those in your network, and it is trivial to see and disconnect from whoever introduced the bot into your network. Would a community self regulate if bots became actually contagious
• slater 2y ago
  Make 'em pay for a user account, even a one-off $5 per account should suffice
  • petre 2y ago
    What stops political campaign money from funding accounts and bots?
    • tim333 2y ago
      $5 is enough for a human to glance at the feed and mute it if it seems bad. The trouble with $0 is you can create a million bots and no one has time to look at them. I wouldn't mind something like that. When I joined Whatsapp it cost $1 for life and I thought that was a good system. Sadly it's gone, replaced by free but ad funded.
  • Philpax 2y ago
    The bots pay monthly for a blue checkmark so that they're promoted to the top of the replies. A small cost does not appear to have been a meaningful disincentive, especially when scammers can easily make that money back and political operatives can easily bankroll that.
    • slater 2y ago
      Ah, well… y’see that’s where heavy moderation and bans would come in to play, and uhhh…
• tim333 2y ago
  Facebook has much less bots/porn. They employ huge numbers of humans to achieve that. Also a real name policy.