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by artninja1988 756 days ago
There seems to be a lot of these bots on twitter. I hate starting to read a post only to realize it's a bot trying to push scams/ whatever I've just wasted my time on. At times like these I almost wish for some kind of digital ID to have a verification of interacting with a human. Don't know if that's possible in a robust and truly privacy preserving way
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>> some kind of digital ID to have a verification of interacting with a human.

So a reverse captcha? Maybe we could append the results of a captcha to a post. Here is my theory about democracy, and here is proof that I can correctly spot bicycles.

I don't think that's necessary.

A regex could catch a huge number of bots on twitter, but if they banned them they would have to admit that usage has gone down.