• quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    It’s pretty easy to detect spam. I guess user reports and noticing when someone suddenly messages many new users and those users do not respond.

    Anyway, it’s not an issue on Wire or SimpleX or the dozens of other platforms that don’t require phone numbers. It’s obviously a solved problem. Signal is just making up fake excuses.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s pretty easy to detect spam. I guess user reports and noticing when someone suddenly messages many new users and those users do not respond.

      It’s not so easy, because you could even register a new account for each new spam message, or register 100k accounts & only send out 3 messages a day / account…

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      1 day ago

      It’s pretty easy to detect spam.

      Tell that to… any social media. Lol. If was easy to detect bot you think they not big problem anymore.