Misinformation is not the same thing as disinformation.

Why does an anarchist have communist as a username

without a link to the source, we have no idea if this is information or misinformation

Link to source?

What app is that? Does it also show me other’s up votes?

Flipboard is how you can federate BBC and a bunch of legit news networks. They’re pretty important imho

For a long time I thought tumblr was Pintrest.

What the heck is tumblr? I dont think I’ve ever done an image search that lead me to that site.

It is not possible to detect bots. Attempting to do so will invariably lead to false positives denying access to your content to what is usually the most at-risk & marginalized folks

Just implement a cache and forget about it. If read only content is causing you too much load, you’re doing something terribly wrong.