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?
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.
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.
Oh sure, that’s why.
This data surely goes straight to Palentir
Fighting bots with less privacy feels like a trade a lot of people won’t be comfortable with.
Awesome, love it, hope they do it. I love me a good fire.
Watch /r/politics posts go from 22k upvotes to 3k upvotes overnight.
Face ID? Has he not been paying attention? It’s pretty triival at this point to generate a picture of someone’s face.
BREAKING NEWS! Reddit figured out how to make their platform even shittier
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 used to assume most of the bots belonged to Reddit. I still do, too.
Of course they are
Those won’t require id
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 !
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.
You made the right choice by coming here.
