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

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[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you find people you want to follow on other instances with mastodon? I've tried searching all kinds of ways with username and instance, but it doesn't find the people I'm looking for (specific accounts)

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

trending works great now, hashtags always worked, and many apps support features like following instances. The search feature is upcoming so maybe wait for that to drop

[–] falkerie71@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"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

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] falkerie71@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

No, there is a way...

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It's called nuking the service all together.

[–] HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

There are a ton on twitter generally, more than 80 percent of my followers on a small account are obvious fake profiles/porn bots. But they don't reply often, they mostly like.

[–] Fhek@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You sound like my boss

[–] DosCommas@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are all over LinkedIn with really obvious fake profiles. LinkedIn is doing nothing to stop it.

[–] c0c0c0@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LinkedIn is feeling like abandonware.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It may as well shut its doors at this point in my opinion. No amount of changes or marketing is going to turn it into what they wanted it to be at this point. It's at the point if someone starts casually talking about LinkedIn they get sideways glances as to why they would even be using it, unless they work in HR.