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frod <
frod@none.org> writes:
On 23 Feb 2024, "Jan K." <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> posted
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W Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:41:41 -0000 (UTC), k napisal:
Indeed. The spam floods from SEA have been stopped. They will now
move to other social media platforms, hopefully tiktok.
The two confusing parts of the spam flood that I never understood was
what were they trying to accomplish (since their spam made no sense
when read)?
And why didn't google just put a stop to it? For example if the same
account spams a thousand messages, all they have to do is ban it.
google is all about money. Groups weren't making any.
Reddit is probably making some money, and it's essentially yet another
clone of Usenet. All Google had to do is to take Usenet seriously and
allocate some resources to it. They were potentially sitting on one of
the major social networks (Reddit is more popular than Twitter, for
example). Maybe oldschool Usenet users wouldn't like the crowd that such popularity will inevitably attract, and maybe a lot of the users would
think they're using clone of Reddit, but I have a feeling that it's
technically possible to have newbie-friendly Reddit-like web interface
or an app while maintaining backward compatibility with classic Usenet, including decentralization, and thus be sitting on a searchable archive
that goes back decades. For better or for worse, nothing like that
happened, but I believe that there was a chance that many people who are
using Reddit right now could have been using Googler or something like
that.
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