- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmy.ml
Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.
“The new verification system will prevent bot spam!” - Some rich guy who has no idea how the internet works
Seriously, it’s been such a pain reading Chinese content on Twitter/X/whatever. If you post any stuff that says something critical about China, no matter if it’s news, opinions, or just shit posts, and have some amount of Chinese speaking followers, you are now guaranteed to have sex-bots spam commenting your every post. And you can’t do anything about it, since they have multiple accounts, and some just leave the comment and block you so you can’t remove it.
Edit: grammar
It’s going to be an even bigger mess if Elon goes through with getting rid of block and only leaving people with a mute. There won’t be any way to stop these porn bots.
There won’t be any way to stop these porn bots.
No, there is a way…
It’s called nuking the service all together.
There are a ton on twitter generally, more than 80 percent of my followers on a small account are obvious fake profiles/porn bots. But they don’t reply often, they mostly like.
Stop using shitter.
You sound like my boss
They are all over LinkedIn with really obvious fake profiles. LinkedIn is doing nothing to stop it.
LinkedIn is feeling like abandonware.
It may as well shut their doors in my opinion. No amount of changes or marketing is going to turn it into what they wanted it to be at this point. It’s at the point where if someone starts casually talking about LinkedIn they get sideways glances as to why they would even be using it, unless they work in HR.