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    Spam bots pursuing an audience shouldn’t be a surprising thing. Even glorious fediverse valhalla is battling with them.

    The difference between the Threads & Twitter situations is that I’m inclined to extend a lot more leeway to an engineering team that’s less than two weeks into a new platform, versus one that’s been around nearly two decades and is suddenly dealing with issues because the owner decided to haphazardly fire the teams responsible for maintaining those areas.

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        I miss the old YikYak, straight from the code YikYak Chop up the soul YikYak, set on its goals YikYak I hate the new YikYak, the bad mood YikYak The always rude YikYak, spaz in the news YikYak I miss the sweet YikYak, chop up the beats YikYak I gotta to say at that time, I’d like to meet YikYak See, I invented YikYak, it wasn’t any YikYaks And now I look and look around and there’s so many YikYaks I used to love YikYak, I used to love YikYak I even had the pink polo, I thought I was YikYak What if YikYak made a song about YikYak Called “I Miss The Old YikYak”? Man, that would be so YikYak That’s all it was YikYak, we still love YikYak And I love you like YikYak loves YikYak.

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      a more miserable place.

      Fixed that. I can’t imagine a platform less appealing than Threads.

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      Just like the eventual rapid fall of L’manberg, albeit not as fast as a series of TNT and wither bombardments…

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    Who actually manages to look at 10,000 tweets a day like holy shit do these people do nothing but scroll Twitter for 24 hours a day?

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    Why is it that I immediately assume at least a sizable amount of chatbots on threads were either created, directed, or funded by Elon and his financiers.

    Of course there are going to be chat bots swarming any social media/platform with enough real participants, but it’s not like Meta is new to social media and I would assume Meta has sophisticated detection systems available to them for exactly this type of thing (and probably has their own chatbots and a bot whitelist)

    Maybe the chatbot AI revolution will make social media unusable.

    Either way, I would be shocked if chatbots could exist on either platform in a meaningful way if Meta/Twitter actually put reasonable efforts into ensuring all content was generated and shared by real people.

    I’m saying this without a clue how anything actually works, don’t take my crackpot theories too seriously

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    If you build it, bots will come. 'Twas inevitably a more pressing concern when you suddenly have 30 mil+ signups in less than 2 weeks.

    Hopefully our admin communities will handle our bot waves strongly.

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    I wouldn’t be surprised if one day it comes out that these spam bots are paid for by competitors