• dan1101@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    It’s a big irony to me that they were making users show their driver’s license to ensure they were real people, and then the platform itself makes fake people.

    • mark@programming.dev
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      1 month ago

      Right, and what’s even as bizarre to me (as an engineer) is that they’re bots posing as people.

      That’s arguably the most deceptive and malicious way to use a bot on a site meant for real people.

      But they’ll quickly block any helpful bots anyone else tries to integrate on the platform.

      “Our bad bots good, your good bots bad”. What a crazy world we live in.

      • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        “Our bad bots good, your good bots bad”.

        Textbook big brother stuff. We’re in 1984 but the corpos are the ones providing the daily hate