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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, elon's not going to see the negative consequences of this personally, because he'll just use the "ban" button instead of the "block" button.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I’m betting I can reverse engineer how to create spam accounts in a mostly automated fashion faster than he can ban accounts. And I bet a lot of other people can do the same.

I feel very confident saying that he’s not gonna win this one.