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.

        • turdburglar@piefed.socialEnglish
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          7 months ago

          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.

          • moseschrute@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            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!

            • poopy@lemmy.world
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              3 hours ago

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  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    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.”

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Reddit, very famously, used bot traffic at its inception to create the illusion of a community big enough to compete with Digg.

      It was the OG “fake it till you make it” business.

      As the company implements an increasingly draconian “ban every account that looks at me sideways” admin policy, I’m not sure if “2/3rds of the traiffc” isn’t lowballing it. There are entire threads - from initial post to bullshit bottom comment - that get created by bot traffic on the modern site. It’s a full blown hall of mirrors over there.

      • Iori_Yagami_Fighter@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        How can you tell? Not attacking, just curious. I never could tell, well maybe if usernames are all oddly similarly patterned, and even than, I can’t be sure it’s not some app/program that hands out those ids when you register in it, as people sometimes can be too lazy to come up with a meaningful username. Short comments can also be made by dumb humans, long posts can be written by modern Artificial Idiot. 20 years ago, I could tell spam post, cause they all were literally either identical to each other, or at least totally ignored context and never responded to questions. Now I am not sure at all. Definitely some people are less eloquent than AI.

  • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    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.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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?

  • zebidiah@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    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.