Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Its kind of evil to create bots to try and manipulate a nascent social media platform that is trying to get started, or to spam it generally. Its bad on larger platforms too of course but there's just something particularly antisocial about it. Proportionally its like shoplifting from a global conglomerate that treats it as an accounting write-off vs. from a mom-and-pop store trying to get started and whose business and wellbeing you may genuinely aim to undermine.
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Leeward Bound
@leewardbound
sir maybe you'd feel different if you were here last year when many of us were expressing concern about the protocols (lack of) incentive mechanisms and the vulnerability to spam merkle's reply was rude and dismissive "spam filtering is clients job! nobody will spam a text protocol with no images! not a problem currently so it doesn't exist!" over and over until they stopped replying i literally started building a bot framework to prove it was easy and real (never launched it or spammed anything tho). when $DEGEN came out i cheered (and halted work) because it proved my whole point for me - the cost of filling a Hub with useless garbage is low, the potential incentives are very high. i like the FC platform and community but the protocol design has a lot of holes in it - lessons we should have all learned from SMTP, DNS, bittorrent, btc, eth, and a dozen other established, long-term decentralized protocols who've all paved the way here. imho, anyone pushing the limits of the system is a hero, not a villain.
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