Couldn't we improve the spam situation on global by allowing users to set global to only show posts by users that are ___ degrees of separation away? In other words, "set global to only show posts from friends of friends" ie 2 degrees of separation or "set global to only show posts from accounts up to 3 degrees of separation" ie friends of friends of friends.
As long as your friends' friends aren't following spammers for some reason, this should clean up the global feed quite a bit, no? #[0]
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