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by Earw0rm 888 days ago
Twxttxr is getting pretty close now - maybe in some ways surpassing Digg in awfulness.

Specifically the massive level of pornbot traffic, and algorithm changes that seem to be intentionally surfacing posts to adversarial users who will then go on the attack.

2 comments

The porn bots are pervasive and easily identifiable programmatically.

That they persist must mean that X wants them to persist.

am I the only one that has not seen porn bots or had replies from them on Twitter? I see this mentioned as a huge problem, but are users in general actually seeing this?