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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @028559d218 OP 7h \ parent \ on: How do i know that 'social media' accounts and posts... aren't mostly Bots? lightning
"I don't think the real problem is that content is being created by bots. If you liked it, what difference does it make? The real issue is that it's too easy to take up your limited bandwidth with spam.
And what's the best way to combat spam? Introduce a cost. Proof of Work."
- 100% Agree
"Pay to post should be the norm. It's the reason I ditched Reddit and only use SN. I wish posting and commenting here was more expensive.
E-mail should be extended in a way such that the recipient can request sats to receive the message (eCash is a great solution here with its bearer asset tokens). Other messaging platforms should have this option as well for PMs."
- 100% Agree
Without PoW (which is the point of the article) the internet is a giant bot-show.
Want to message me? Send a few sats. If I mark the email as 'valid' you get the sats back automatically.
Want to post? Pay a few sats. Bots won't do this.
Want to comment? Pay a few sats (again bots will rarely do this).
Create a new Twatter account? It will cost a few sats...
It just helps clean up the internet so much...
While not requiring advertisers to collect everyone's data to such an extent... helping to preserve privacy and incentives in the long run.
Who's to say the bots will be subject to the same rules as humans? (how do you prove the post was paid for?)
And even if bots are subject to the same rules, they may still get preferential treatment by the algorithm. Or simply game the algorithm better than a human can.
There is no escape.
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The bots have to pay. A Nigerian Prince will need 100s of thousands... maybe millions of spam posts to find victims to scam.
And the % actually scammed by Nigerian Princes is incredibly small... meaning that Nigerian Prince scammers and spammers will need to pay lots of sats and I mean LOTS to continue spamming the internet.
Twatter has no pay-to-post anti-spam mechanisms and it is a disaster. Youtube too. Facebook also.
Reddit has 'moderation' which is different.
Only Stacker News really has the pay-to-post qualities derived from 'proof-of-work' and that alone makes it special IMO.