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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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Yes, but crypto has trained a large group of people globally that even a small amount of work / effort is EV+
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
not too many mom and pops valuated at 1b
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tomu
@tomu
how i see it: crypto social media: more bots, more farming current social media: increases following account - gets interest from brands bots are being used to make money
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sahil
@sahil
way harder for crypto or decentralized social to fend sybil/spam as compared to larger (centralized) platforms. can't do centralized gatekeeping/censorship at network level. cost of spam/sybil is negligible. heuristics for positive ranking/reputation are not mature (yet!) and we distribute money (b$) for 'activity' quite ridiculously.
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sparkz
@jacy
social media + crypto = PVP
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King
@king
financial games to extract as much value for them for now full blown propaganda machine driven by fake automated accounts later
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Semui
@semui.eth
imo it's less "shoplifting" and more rushing for the free samples with no intention to buy, bringing friends (bots) to get more free samples. It crowds out folks who really do want to buy from the shop. If there were no free samples (i.e. tokens) it's less of a problem, but many came to the shop incentivized by them.
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Ida Belle 🟪
@ida
Baffles me how easily some people can completely shut down their conscience, like when a scammer drains someone’s crypto wallet that could be a family’s life savings. I've had to accept it as part of human nature and it’s up to the rest of us to cope with this reality.
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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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