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[–] [email protected] 153 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It's a big irony to me that they were making users show their driver's license to ensure they were real people, and then the platform itself makes fake people.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Right, and what's even as bizarre to me (as an engineer) is that they're bots posing as people.

That's arguably the most deceptive and malicious way to use a bot on a site meant for real people.

But they'll quickly block any helpful bots anyone else tries to integrate on the platform.

"Our bad bots good, your good bots bad". What a crazy world we live in.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

"Our bad bots good, your good bots bad".

Textbook big brother stuff. We’re in 1984 but the corpos are the ones providing the daily hate

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