Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter

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• qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Honestly, the only real solution is leaving Twitter. With the plan to remove the block feature this will only get worse and worse. I really don’t see this sort of thing getting better anytime soon or later.

  Some options: Mastodon is great, but push through that initial anxiety about servers and just hop on. Not threads! Unless you’re okay with FaceBook taking, very literally, all your data. Bluesky I’ve heard is okay, but it’s another billionaire project that has an algorithm to do whatever they want.

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  • Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I really think Elon just wants to destroy twitter to finally put an end to that hellhole

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If he was competent at that, he wouldn’t be sinking it alongside his own reputation, he’d get his puppet CEO to undermine it and then call it inevitable.

      I think he wants this X app to be a thing, he just has no idea what he’s doing

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• falkerie71@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “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 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.

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  • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    some just leave the comment and block you so you can’t remove it.

    Wait, is someone comments on a post, then blocks the OP that comment can’t be deleted?

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    • falkerie71@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I haven’t dealt with them personally before, but I did ask a poster before if they could hide the spam comments, and they said no since they couldn’t see it.

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  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There won’t be any way to stop these porn bots.

      No, there is a way...

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• specfreq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t get it. Why do people even like Twitter, old or new?

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  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Twitter used to be an absolutely great way to keep up with breaking news, because so many reporters were there. I joined twitter during the Arab Spring, because so much that was happening was being talked about on Twitter. Same with a lot of social movements - twitter was a place where you could make something local go global. If anything was happening in the world, twitter was the place to follow it.

    But now? Now, it’s a desert of information. It’s depressing to watch a place that was so vibrant become the home of Musk shills and weird right wingers. I loved Twitter, before Elon took over. Now, it’s fading, and fast.

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  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was good place to keep up with artists and game developers. They share each other’s work in a way that is great to discover more artists and games that you didn’t know about.

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  • HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I could say this about most social media. Im on facebook just as a last ditch way for friends and family to reach me, linkedin for keeping contact with workmates, never saw a usecase for twitter but I see folks ones below.

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