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I Blocked Diana Meresc. Bots like Diana are set up to exploit… | by Olivia Cal | Jul, 2022
Bots like Diana are set up to exploit our desire for praise.Photo by Yuyeung Lau on UnsplashLast week, Medium user, Diana Meresc, followed me.Every follow I gain gives me a little rush of dopamine. I want people to enjoy my articles, find them interesting, or follow because the spooky-folklore-history-myth themes I write about resonate with them. — A little naive I know, as a lot of people follow-for-follow.When Diana Meresc cropped up in my followers list, I had a small chuckle.I had already read articles by Gustave Deresse, BichoDoMato and Robin Christine Honigsberg speculating about how she might just be a bot.I was a fresh-faced Medium newbie. I had no idea who they were talking about, but their articles intrigued me. They gave me a small insight into this strange new world I’d just en...