Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

  • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months 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 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

  • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months 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, 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.