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Comment by RicoElectrico

10 hours ago

Mostly the same as in early 2010s, but without growth hacking.

But, the problem is every incremental internet user after that was worse, regardless of country.

And adding to that, excluding propaganda, junk content or repost profiles mainly originate from global south as human labor value is low and people are desperate for income. (Yeah, I know, controversial thought, but on IG you can check country of all these reposting profiles and much of them aren't from EU/US). And these locations got connected to the internet specifically during 2010s.

my hopes would be that the proof of human uniqueness (via World ID), combined with moderation, would be enough to combat this problem.

current social media platforms can't cope with it, because the user supply is infinite, as only an email is required to create an account

  • You're being very naive. That's a classic "simple solution of a hard problem" coming from somebody with tech background.

    Today people are not ashamed of posting horrible things under their real name! Let that sink in.

    • yes, people post bad content all the time; however I'm not against that kind of content.

      I have problems with:

        - bot posts
        - ... which influence some real users
        - ... which then, combined with more bot posts, influence the rest of users
      

      solving the problem of "free speech" on the internet obviously won't be done by implementing a proof of human uniqueness; I believe it's a problem, that will always remain to a certain degree. however, I believe that we can reduce the size of the problem from where its at now, to a significantly smaller size (e.g. 2000s era)