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How would they make it harder / reduce bots without sacrificing privacy (such as SMS/ID verification/etc.)? I think if you can realistically solve that you'd be a millionaire already.
> I think if you can realistically solve that you'd be a millionaire already. Please. If I knew how to do that, or even how to reduce bots even with SMS verification etc., I'd be a multi-billionaire at least. Making a twitter clone is relatively easy, making a community with a good vibe that's actually worth spending time using is the one single problem that makes none of the clones stand out to normal users.
One idea I had (feel free to steal this idea for your own use) was a one-time crypto payment to create an account. Of course you can't prevent bots from doing that, but if the price is right then I think it might greatly limit the number of bots on the platform as well as possibly limit the number of low-quality accounts.
But you don't know what you don't know, so I might be missing something that makes this pointless.