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.
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There’s no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, “bots that aren’t paying us.”
it’s too late for me to leave reddit. 😔
Me too. I left a couple of years ago 😔️
I suppose I could rejoin, and leave again?
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Assert dominance.
This is what made me finally bite the bullet and switch to lemmy.
well done. sign up for a piefed instance too.
first ive heard of it! How does it compare, you use both i take it?
i do. tbh i don’t notice a difference really, but i like having more than one account after my first home instance shuttered. i opted for piefed on the ios app blorp.
the blorp dev roams these halls and seems pretty friendly and dedicated to making it better all the time.
Blorp dev here. Can confirm I am dedicated to making Blorp the best client for Lemmy and PieFed. I’m biased, but I’m pretty confident the multi account support I built is unmatched by any other client. Let me know if you need anything!
Downloading now!
Great to have you! The web version is also worth a try if that interests you. My goal is one unified web and mobile PieFed and lemmy experience.
I like it! Not sure if it will replace boost just yet. Any plans for themes?
wait wait wait reddit is against AI bots? news to me… https://documentingourdecline.substack.com/p/ai-bots-appeared-after-reddit-partnered
(Why exactly would anyone believe that face ID verification can stop AI bots? Have they seen how well generative AI can generate videos of humans?)
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https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=24
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Im sure the website that sold userdata to every single AI company to train their models on wouldn’t ever even think of selling the faces of every one of its users to a company to train its AI face generator on.
Or that the website which accidentally admitted “the most reddit addicted city” is an air force base that hosts their online counterintelligence teams… Where was I going with this? Hmm must be nothing.
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Is there a reason to expect bots won’t overwhelm Lemmy as well?
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how many of us noped the fuck outa there when they tried to force their garbage app on us…? this will only hasten it’s demise.
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I don’t care, because reddit, but this makes me wonder if you can just have an AI generate a generic face and feed that in.
It’s obviously not about bots. Isn’t spez friendly with Peter Thiel?
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Do it. I can’t wait for it.
Maybe we can get more people on the Fediverse lol
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