Well, the main protection is monetary cost of making a comment or post. And after that the algorithm sorts things by popularity. Isn't that enough?
what if a bot could earn more sats on SN than it costs to post, it would still be making a profit
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That means that it made good content that people enjoyed, wouldn't it?
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So good bots are good, bad bots are bad
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Bots that behave exactly like humans are hard to prevent anyways
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then it would be a good bot
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