Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on X?
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from Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 2024 07:14
https://lemmy.world/post/13591180
from Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 2024 07:14
https://lemmy.world/post/13591180
Spam is hard. No real platform has solved it completely, and none ever will. Spammers evolve, platforms catch up, spammers evolve again, and so on until the last post is posted and the last user signs out. Individual spam tactics, however, do tend to have short lives, and while PIB won’t be with us forever, it’s notable that it has been with us for so long — a consequence, perhaps, of the near-total elimination of the teams that used to deal with such things at Twitter. Long enough to become a platformwide joke. Long enough to become genuinely sort of annoying even to the users who think it’s funny. And long enough to get some idea of who is posting all that P in all those B’s, and why.
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That was really interesting to read. A lot of people have been saying that Twitter had got a lot worse since ManBaby came along. Not being a user anymore I have nothing to dispute that with.
What is interesting is the companies who are arguably making it ‘worse’ (partly) are backing that statement up by saying it’s better than it was for them. Easier to do business. Easier to make money. Easier to make it worse.
I suppose that’s what happens when the owner sees moderation of this type of content as ‘censorship’.
Twitter users confuse me. Maybe they double-down on the moderation of their own bubble so it’s not quite as bad for them.
People are willing to deal with a lot of thing before it gets to a breaking point - whether it’s a social media platform or anything else in life. Change is scary and many users keep their accounts to follow specific artists/series/topics who may or may not have easily findable alternatives to switch to.
Add the fact that majority of casual users doesn’t know about other similar platforms or (in case of fediverse) finds them confusing and suddenly they have more incentive to just put up with the problems as long as they can. More so since such change requires rebuilding of communities and relationships.
Finally, there’s laziness - most people just can’t be bothered to change things in their life unless they have no other choice/choice was made for them (ex. service they used died).
Why do you think so many refused to leave reddit after the whole boycott drama? It sucks but that’s how humans are. There’s only so much we can care about and social media aren’t exactly high on the totem pole.
Well said.
Someone please think of the poor scammers and their millions of bots that could be silenced.
What's X?
Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more.
Another way of writing ‘10’
I think it’s Xzibit’s nickname.
A display compositor used in Linux distributions. It is increasingly being replaced by Wayland.
You’d didn’t disappoint
A variable you have to solve for
“Wake up, you’re late to school”
It’s a clone of Mastodon where the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet
Horizontal axis, in Cartesian coordinate system
U+0058It marks the spot.
He gon’ give it to you
Option two anytime now plz
He’s a sociopath, you can’t trust two consecutive words he says and even a single word is a gamble.
He then proceeded to do everything in his power to strengthen the bots.
Likely relevant John Oliver about these types of scams: youtu.be/pLPpl2ISKTg?si=WYsqiiQ4f3U6ZoIe
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/pLPpl2ISKTg?si=WYsqiiQ4f3U6ZoIe
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Who gives a shit what the fascists & fascist adjacent are doing on Twitter?
Gottem! amirite? Elon bad Twitter used to be so prog now it’s like Pantera and rapists basically luwluw
I haven’t touched twitter/x in several years now. It turned into exactly what I thought it would.
Luckily the porn-twitter is still unchanged. I don’t care about the rest of it.
More like horny_insight!
…I’ll see myself out.
No no stay we need you.
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“This user has no public description”
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