Before Reddit, Facebook, and other massively centralized forum hosting, the thousands of independent, individual forums and discussion boards didn't seem to have too much of a spam/bot problem. Just too much diversity, too much work to get accounts on thousands of different platforms to spew your sewage.
"Sign in with Google" and "Sign in with Facebook" was the beginning of the end.
I'm sure a LLM would have no problem creating an account on all 1000 if someone cared enough to try. Sign in with google is the easy way, but it wouldn't be hard to do sign up for each individually.
Yeah, I'm a bit young for bulletin boards. I did use classic forums (LTT and similar tech/pc building ones), but the old reddit was just far too convenient and far too addicting.
SoftTalker|4 months ago
"Sign in with Google" and "Sign in with Facebook" was the beginning of the end.
bluGill|4 months ago
abixb|4 months ago