Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
A bit puzzled by the people who continue to insist that open channels without any gating or spam filtering would work just fine. When I mention there would be a lot of spam, they tell me I'm wrong or they would manually weed it out. We tried that for the last year and it didn't work. Very few channel owners / moderators wanted to do the drudgery of cleaning up spammy casts. It's not fun or rewarding. And that's logical on their end! The reason web2 doesn't have this problem: 1. The successful companies like Meta or YouTube have *10s of thousands* of ops people moderating the platform; they also have massive data sets and AI models to help 2. They are centralized. They can *delete* spammy accounts and there's no recourse. 3. X / Twitter got rid of most of their ops people, so you see *a lot* more spam on there. Additionally, #hashtags on Twitter have been spammy for 10 years. Just look at the following link: https://x.com/hashtag/Ethereum
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
4. Reddit is nearly 20 years old and developed a strong mod culture early on. Starting a new social network in the 2020s is "after the fall" of massive spam rings. So you have to take a different approach. 5. X / Twitter has hinted at requiring a small on-time payment for every account to post (because of the spam problem). It's only going to get worse as AI / LLMs get more sophisticated and cheaper.
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Icetoad 🎩 🍕 🎶 🐈 💚
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I doubt the small payment idea would weed out much.
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