Ask HN: Does anyone care enough about bots to switch social networks?

2•Chirpper•53m ago

I built a content aggregator / discussion platform where being human isn't a policy, it's structural. Invite chains mean your reputation is mathematically tied to who you vouch for. Inviting a bot destroys your own standing. Discovering one bot farm wipes the entire downstream network in a single action — making it economically unviable to operate one here at any scale.

My honest suspicion is that nobody really cares enough to actually switch platforms over this, despite all the daily complaints of talking to bots on current content aggregators.

Long story short... Trying to find out if people really care enough, before I go further than the beta site I've already built.

Happy to send invites to anyone who wants to poke at it.

Comments

PaulHoule•32m ago

Hate to say it but when I talk w/ Microsoft Copilot I hear a lot of talk like

   ... being human isn't a policy, it's structural

scottgal•27m ago

It sounds like a social network that kind of punishes participation...why would you recommend anyone if it could damage your reputation. The social contract that's supposed to underly social networks does this anyway; someone who retweets / toots bots gets a bad reputation adn loses followers. It's just the bots got really good at spoofing the social graph too...an llm can gain reputation by recommending humans just like humans can.

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