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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
@pluralistic on how #Facebook beat MySpace:
>... It gave them a bot. You fed the bot your Myspace username and password, and it would login to Myspace and pretend to be you, and scrape everything waiting in your inbox, copying it to your FB inbox, and you could reply to it and it would autopilot your replies back to Myspace.
Great read. https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/