We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by ben_w on Saturday November 16, 2024 @06:05PM (#42160307)

> I think if you can realistically solve that you'd be a millionaire already.

Please.

If I knew how to do that, or even how to reduce bots even with SMS verification etc., I'd be a multi-billionaire at least.

Making a twitter clone is relatively easy, making a community with a good vibe that's actually worth spending time using is the one single problem that makes none of the clones stand out to normal users.

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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by majorchord on Saturday November 16, 2024 @06:20PM (#42160444)

One idea I had (feel free to steal this idea for your own use) was a one-time crypto payment to create an account. Of course you can't prevent bots from doing that, but if the price is right then I think it might greatly limit the number of bots on the platform as well as possibly limit the number of low-quality accounts.

But you don't know what you don't know, so I might be missing something that makes this pointless.

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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by hollerith on Saturday November 16, 2024 @06:23PM (#42160452)

Metafilter used to charge a one-time fee of $5:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467870

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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by ben_w on Sunday November 17, 2024 @03:37PM (#42167001)

Bad actors were willing to pay for whatever Twitter's premium thingie was called at the time, shortly after Musk started changing what the blue tick meant.

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