Usenet, BB forums and IRC already had bot spam before 2005 ended. What even is the old internet? 1995?

Eh, to be fair, I haven't seen a viagra spam message since forever. Those things have become easier to filter. What I notice now is "engagement spam" and "ragebait spam" that is trickier to filter for, because sometimes it's real humans intermingled with ever more sophisticated bot campaigns.

	▲	johnisgood 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Out of curiosity I checked Facebook. It is mostly "ragebait" posts. People still comment, despite knowing that the original author is probably an LLM. :P They just want to voice their opinions or virtue signalling. It has never changed.