• Kaufdrop@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If your only goal is to reduce bots, then yes it should be successful. However, this limits the amount of time people can spend on the app. Which is the antithesis of what a successful social media platform wants to do and what ad agencies what to do.

    Ultimately if he sticks with this it’s going to be a death blow for the platform.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t see how this limits bots at all. You can simply spin up a hundred thousand bots and you’ll be able to crawl 30 million posts a day. At best it will slow bots down for a week while they refactor how their systems work.

      This really only affects legitimate users.

      • Liara@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        This really only affects legitimate users.

        Legitimate users are usually the ones who suffer most for DRM