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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @random_ 1 Feb \ parent \ on: How do i know that 'social media' accounts and posts... aren't mostly Bots? lightning
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.
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.
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Well... how would the platforms sustain themselves if they dole out "special privileges" to too many users?
They wouldn't. Platforms will take a small percentage of the posts and the 'fees' in sats that people pay to post... and use them to fund the platform.
As opposed to doing it today through advertising/data collection.
How can you "know" that people aren't bots today? Or that their posts don't have 'special privileges' on Twatter?
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Bots don't pay
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