• downpunxx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you join a social network that *Mark owns, you get what you deserve, and he gets all your correspondence to mine and sell forever and ever and ever, tying it into all the other data the web has “anonymously” collected about you, even using different usernames, vpn’s, and email addresses. ta dah!

  • ren (a they/them)@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Spam’s been a HUGE Instagram problem for years that Meta just didn’t want to deal with. Every post gets littered with spam comments immediately from bots. All those bot accounts probably hopped over to Threads to keep on keeping on.

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    1 year ago

    Wow. So they leeched their own users off instagram, didn’t keep their attention with its sterile environment causing usage to drop 20% after the first week, and now this? lmao

  • reverie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    These companies not being able to handle bot attacks without hamstringing major parts of their platforms is a canary in the coal mine for the Dead Internet.

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    1 year ago

    They are hardly copying Twitter in this regard. Twitter is doing it for fuck knows why, trying to get more money from a dieing platform or something. But Threads:

    “Spam attacks have picked up,” requiring new rate limit changes.

    Are mitigating spam. That is reasonable and any sane platform will have rate limits in place to stop abuse. They only question is if the rates are low enough to affect normal users or not.

    So just because two companies do the same thing does not mean they are strictly copying each other, here they have different reasons as far as I can see.

    If you are going to complain about something, do it for reasons that make sense. Don’t make shit up.