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It can't handle it for sure but the thing is that you need RCs in order to send Threads so there wouldn't be a bunch of bots commenting and writing threads like there are on Twitter. Unless they bought and powered up a bunch of Hive.

Yes, spot on.

We'll see if the presumed #Lightning Network & #Dogecoin payments integration in #Twitter will at some point be handled in a similar way, to filter the bots plague.