Reddit CEO says facial verification may be introduced. Ostensibly to prevent bots.
But we all know how dangerous this can be. But most likely Reddit users will just accept it.
Although they have a great free analogue right under their noses - Lemmy. Which is many times better than its competitor.
I wish more people would discover Lemmy, but that’s unlikely.
a big reason people won’t come to lemmy is the content is a political echo chamber and defederation is confusing as a concept to most people. i agree with most political opinions i see on here, but it’s kind of annoying to just see politics every time i open the app. maybe i just need to get better at tuning my feed, but most of the popular subs are political in some way.
politics is at lemmy’s core, it was literally created by communists & socialists to serve as an online community for leftists; not rightists like liberals or conservatives.
Plus…there is a LOT to talk about these days, and most sane takes have been effectively banned from all large platforms lmao, with people helping all this along by voluntarily censoring the DUMBEST FUCKING WORDS in their memes, even, just to further their own reach within those shit holes.
So. Yeah, Lemmy be political.
Yeah…that’s it…bots…you don’t want to associate all the post history and behavioral data with a real live person and connect whatever data you can find on the open data market with the same real person, collating everything the internet knows about a person into a single profile, destroying anonymity completely, ushering in a new age of Internet censorship and repression and aiding the identification of target groups for political and commercial exploitation? Nah…you wouldn’t want to do that, would you?
I wonder how much that would reduce their traffic. Would there be anything but niche groups left?
Ditto!
Well that and they permabanned my 14 year old, 1million karma account for making a post that insinuated Donald is a pedophile that some MAGA got all upset about and they rejected my appeal.
So…fuck em.
Requiring face ID AFTER genAI has become great at generating faces is certainly a decision
Next step will be to require Video with bop-it style live instructions, stick out your tongue, blink one eye, pick your nose, make finger guns, smile, frown. They won’t care that it’s not disability friendly.
I’d be bold enough to say this decision is absolutely on par with their other brain dead decisions.
The only reason why Reddit is anywhere close to where it is right now and not considered the sweaty place it was was right after 4Chan in dissociability is Reddit’s data sharing with Google and the reception of better search rankings.
Dead internet theory becoming more true by the day. I mean, it was already true, now it’s just more true.
I hope they do it, so that they (Reddit) crash and burn.
I also hope they don’t do it, so that we don’t turn Lemmy into Reddit 2.0 due to max influx.
Realistically? If they do end up doing it, I wouldn’t be surprised if no one over there bats an eyelid.
Point of order: Facebook already tried this
https://m.facebook.com/help/159096464162185/
Remember: enshittification can only exists until the moment it induces enough friction. Then people push back. Cf online streaming in 2013 vs 2026.
We’re not quite there yet. TBTB are doing a stellar job of increasing the water temp almost imperceptibly.
Well no. Then it’s only a matter of time before pranksters use your digital face for nefarious purposes.
Or more likely, fascist governments use it to get rid of the undesireables who dare go against their plan. Thats why authoritarian right wingers love AI.
