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.
I’m curious if anyone has found a story indicating that they actually want a photo of your face? The original Engadget article seems to indicate that they’re talking about Apple FaceID/TouchID, not an actual image upload.
Apple stores all biometrics data locally on the device. Reddit wouldn’t ever see your face if this is the case; they would just get the passkey token generated by the secure enclave. Am I misunderstanding why this is causing outrage?
Well, you have to believe that.
This data surely goes straight to Palentir
Ahahahahahahahahah funny, proooove you are not a bot ! 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 🤣🤣🤣🤣 mehhhh, upload an ID ✔️✔️✔️✔️
They must mean automatic scripts and bots that didn’t pay for acces.
I made the switch to Lemmy today, feels old school kind of good.
Reddit is not only allowing for bots to run rampant, but also it’s managed by the Epstein class and their supporters.
Nice ! Fuck that rats nest !
You made the right choice by coming here.
Welcome! You’ll fit right in
Thank you! I’ve had the pleasure to notice Lemmy (or this particular instance) is more of an open thinker space, and that’s great to see. It really reminds me of the Internet before the corpos got their hands to squeeze every penny out of the average netizen.
Watch /r/politics posts go from 22k upvotes to 3k upvotes overnight.
BREAKING NEWS! Reddit figured out how to make their platform even shittier
never been happier to have been banned for no reason at all
On the one hand, this is awful and will be a complete clusterfuck
On the other hand, it would be acceptable if the mods have to use a recent photo as an avatar.
I want most people to switch to lemmy.
I don’t. I want the ones who have something to contribute to a conversation to join Lemmy. I want the rest to take their meme-blasted voids where a person should be and sit in contemplation until they’re ready to join the adults.
I’m a new lemmy user because of this
Samsies
Welcome! It’s WAY quieter over here because it’s mostly people, not bots.
Welcome to the free side of the internet
They made it easier for bots to thrive by allowing hidden post histories, limiting the API, and punishing users for “bad” reports, but claim they need face ID to filter out bots?
They need to filter out unauthorised bots. There’ll still be a fuckton but they’ll be spreading the right propaganda.
I used to assume most of the bots belonged to Reddit. I still do, too.
thank god, i need a kick in the ass to get off that poisonous slop
nuked my reddit account by telling reddit moderators that eventually every last pedophile account holder on reddit would be held accountable for their actions. got permanently banned for “threatening to kill reddit moderators” with police action “promised”. way to admit that reddit mods are pedophiles.
reddit mods not beating the allegations anytime soon
Ah yes, because bots absolutely haven’t managed to fake/generate faces now have they…
