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I expected something like this to be fill by more spam than toxicity. Where the pages invisible without login?

There was no login option in the app, and I was expecting spam. By toxic content, I mean meaningless and empty. There were at least 200 people from the Hacker News community, and hundreds more were sharing content. Even these people didn't try to leave a meaningful mark, which was unexpected. And regarding spam, I was very afraid of it and took serious precautions on the backend, but I still didn't see any spam other than attempts to spoof the algorithm (by spoofing the algorithm, I mean a post could rank higher based on its freshness, depending on how many clicks and shares it received).

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