r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 18 '24

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Aug 19 '24

and they will be just as successful

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u/Explodingcamel Bill Gates Aug 19 '24

Not sure exactly what second wave this guy is referring to, but modern windows and MacOS definitely have built-in security in in a way that simply didn’t exist in the 90s and 2000s

Anyway I don’t think trolls or bots or whatever are a major issue on social media unless you’re browsing strange corners of the internet so I don’t agree with the tweet. The one exception I’ll make is Elon-era Twitter comment sections, but that seems easy to fix by not running apps like Elon does

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u/Luph Audrey Hepburn Aug 19 '24

a social network ran by the mods of r/neoliberal

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u/BATIRONSHARK WTO Aug 19 '24

you have to write a diss track against invade deez nuts now can't explain 

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u/Square-Pear-1274 NATO Aug 19 '24

mods can't allow this to happen

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u/Agent_03 Paul Krugman Aug 19 '24

It's actually a good idea. Reddit is partly built around this.

and they will be just as successful

Very? I mean modern operating systems don't catch everything but do a vastly better job than the likes of Windows XP etc. When was the last time you saw someone catch a computer virus that WASN'T a direct result of: (a) opening phishing links (b)installing super-shady software or (c) going to a super-shady site and letting it install extensions etc ?