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A dying social media platform can be as good as a new one - the incentive for spammers et Al doesn’t exist and neither do many trolls (no audience) so the remaining group can be a good cross-section.


For me google+ was like that for a while towards the end, but eventually there was a resurgence of trolls posting hate speech that drove me away.


> the incentive for spammers et Al doesn’t exist

Ha ha ha.

Tumblr is the place where you get followed (sometimes even messaged) by porn spam accounts regularly.

This problem is so infamous that even some ARG creators literally used the "spam bot aesthetic" (but with weirder messages) to pull people in: https://youtu.be/ZaYioM_bsb0




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