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.

    • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      5 days ago

      It still is more populated and has a lot higher activity, which suits slightly better for doomscrolling.

      Lemmy needs to get slightly more popular. And maybe a centralized place to find different instances?
      Like i haven’t found any active fitness related ones.

      It’s like coming from a convention Hall full of people and going into a minimally occupied hotel.

      • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 days ago

        Centralisation of power is in the first place why we moved away from Reddit. Fuck that.

        You can find your own fitness sidelemmy. There are actually a few I found.

      • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        This is basically all I use for now. Lemmy doesn’t have the infrastructure for every TV episode and movie I watch.

        • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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          5 days ago

          yeah. and even in the generic tv show communities there are maybe a couple people discussing a new episode, if at all.

          Compared to thousands for a popular show.

          heck, even star trek is barely active compared to reddit. and they did an official migration in the beginning

      • Hominine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 days ago

        You’re probably right and this is the first time I’ve felt kind of glad for the “speed bump” that picking a server on the fediverse has become. We’ll get another influx before too long; maybe a “you need to be this clever to ride the ride” checkpoint isn’t such a bad thing.

        • low@lemmy.today
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          5 days ago

          That’s what I thought when I initially signed up but I’m realizing we lack diversity baaaaaaad. I’d wager 90%+ of users are tech people and we are infamously antisocial, which is rough for a “social media”

      • robocall@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Selecting a server wasn’t an issue for me. The RIF app told me to go to .world and I quickly decided it was the right instance for me to start.

        I moreso had to adjust to the slower pace and less engagement on Lemmy compared to reddit, the lack of niche communities, my favorite subs not having a perfect equivalent here.

        I was super pissed off with reddit and am still salty, so my anger committed me to making the commitment to Lemmy. I was addicted to reddit and they took away the app I was using for over 10 years. I wasn’t ready for the breakup and was scorned. I was highly motivated to make Lemmy work for me.

        Users need that level of anger and outrage to motivate them.

        • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          It’s weird, but that shit intimidates non technical people, and there are a lot of them. It would need better if it says something like ‘Click on the flag of the country closest to where you live’ or something like that.

          Linux seems to have managed to do this - I recently did I mint install on my laptop, it was all GUI, no arcane jargon, no need to use the console, really well optimised for the non-technical folk. You’d be surprised how many people see ‘server’ and think ‘I don’t have one of those, and I don’t think I want one’.

      • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        I (mildly) am concerned about that also…but bear in mind…the difference between Lemmy and Reddit is you can…defederate…from known bad instances. If Lemmy goes in that direction - and we undertake the idea I mentioned here - https://lemmy.world/post/44633911/22828600

        then we can basically recreate a blacklist / whitelist (ala AdBlock). Instance-wide crawlers can still scrape public data, but that’s an ActivityPub protocol constraint, not a Lemmy failure.

        Instance crawling with bots? Sorry, no soup for you.

        Spam bots on bad instances? Blocked from your feed.

        Peak “fine, I’ll do it myself” energy? Yes. But if you’re reading this, you’re 1) part of the resistance (lol) and (2) already here, so …

      • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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        5 days ago

        Most likely, they will. They are not elikely to infect larger instances. Smaller instances will spot them and ban them, I hope.