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0 pointsanticorporate2y ago0 comments

I've participated in plenty of communities without spam problems where I have no idea of the real identity of the other participants, and neither does anyone else.

I can't help but note that neither of us attach our real identity to our participation here.

I think a better solution might be structural. In this GitHub example, why can someone tag people who they're not collaborating with to begin with? Why are identities so easily discoverable and contactable? The value seems to far outweigh the risk.

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worldsayshi2y ago· 2 in thread

I hope there are other ways. Although I suspect that the communities you're thinking about are somewhat niche? I guess that would only motivate a small amount of investment for setting up spambots and a little resistance is enough to move on. If this explanation is not enough I also wonder what the explanation would be?

I also suspect that the barrier for spamming absolutely everywhere is going to get lowered as soon as somebody figures out how to make LLM:s configure spambots for arbitrary domains?

internetter2y ago

> Although I suspect that the communities you're thinking about are somewhat niche?

Reddit, for instance, in my experience, has been remarkably spam bot free, though the dead internet theory is very prevalent in culture there

worldsayshi2y ago

I don't understand your comment; if reddit is part of the dead internet then it is full of spam bots no? Or are you saying that users perceive that most other users are bot when they are not?

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