Active discussion:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16434875" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16434875</a>
That all seems pretty reasonable, mainly geared towards reducing coordinated amplification of content and not just about taking down bots. The original Twitter dev post [1] lays it out quite clearly.<p>I run a single bot for myself [2] that takes the tweets of one (hilarious) account and either retweets them or slightly modifies the original content and tweets that out. This seems to fall in line with what Twitter is now recommending: retweet instead of copy and paste content to multiple accounts, and do not massively coordinate across many accounts.<p>[1]: <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tips/2018/automation-and-the-use-of-multiple-accounts.html" rel="nofollow">https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tips/2018/au...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/jlyman/CleanIve" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jlyman/CleanIve</a>
What about social media marketing? Services like buffer and hootsuite, or enterprise solutions that many tech companies use? Plenty of them have multiple accounts (like Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and more...) and share similar or same tweets among them. It's a very grey area – if the tweet has different text but the same message, is it ok with the guidelines or not? Let's take Twitter for example:
<a href="https://twitter.com/TwitterAPI/status/966367370708176897" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/TwitterAPI/status/966367370708176897</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/TweetDeck/status/966380629674700800" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/TweetDeck/status/966380629674700800</a>
I don't know if it will catch on or what will happen to it if it will, but Mastodon right now is a wonderful place of "censorship" that I'm really enjoying (@JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz in case anyone wants to say hi). I hope they also figure out how to censor bots should they ever become a large enough target to attract them.
Seems the time is neigh for Proof of ( human ) Identity.<p>Something akin with Captchas / Turing tests, but antifragile against gamification, with requisite incentives, and without adverse surveillance.