Spam is hard. No real platform has solved it completely, and none ever will. Spammers evolve, platforms catch up, spammers evolve again, and so on until the last post is posted and the last user signs out. Individual spam tactics, however, do tend to have short lives, and while PIB won’t be with us forever, it’s notable that it has been with us for so long — a consequence, perhaps, of the near-total elimination of the teams that used to deal with such things at Twitter. Long enough to become a platformwide joke. Long enough to become genuinely sort of annoying even to the users who think it’s funny. And long enough to get some idea of who is posting all that P in all those B’s, and why.
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That was really interesting to read. A lot of people have been saying that Twitter had got a lot worse since ManBaby came along. Not being a user anymore I have nothing to dispute that with.
What is interesting is the companies who are arguably making it ‘worse’ (partly) are backing that statement up by saying it’s better than it was for them. Easier to do business. Easier to make money. Easier to make it worse.
I suppose that’s what happens when the owner sees moderation of this type of content as ‘censorship’.
Twitter users confuse me. Maybe they double-down on the moderation of their own bubble so it’s not quite as bad for them.
What’s X?
It’s a clone of Mastodon where the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
A display compositor used in Linux distributions. It is increasingly being replaced by Wayland.
Who gives a shit what the fascists & fascist adjacent are doing on Twitter?
Gottem! amirite? Elon bad Twitter used to be so prog now it’s like Pantera and rapists basically luwluw
“If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying,” wrote Elon Musk in May 2022
Option two anytime now plz
Likely relevant John Oliver about these types of scams: https://youtu.be/pLPpl2ISKTg?si=WYsqiiQ4f3U6ZoIe
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