[prepend]

I think you need millions of bots and the marginal return on spammers may be thousands of a cent. So even $1/year may be too much for botnets.

Imagine a botnot and if each node cost the operator $1. The economics require near zero marginal costs to ddos or spam or whatever.

It seems to cost $10-20 to buy 1,000 followers [0] so I expect lots of those accounts get turned over frequently.

It will be interesting to see if this has any effect.

[0] https://www.socialchamp.io/blog/buy-instagram-followers/

[Ensorceled]

There are a ton of blue check bots right now and that is more that $1/year.

It might eliminate some of the like bots and other noise, but might also make the blue check bot network cheaper to run.

[prepend]

It doesn’t need to eliminate all bots, just reduce the number.

And I think there are far fewer blue check bots to regular, free bots.

[Ensorceled]

In my personal experience, the bot problem is actually worse than it used to be.