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The cynical part of me thinks that there is a different reason for implementing this, and that any bot that drives engagement is valuable to the platform owners.
This is just a product of the age verification bullshit.
Some companies are asking to upload drivers licences, others are asking for banking info. All being marketed as a benefit, and getting a checkmark beside your name.
And here almost every week theres a email from some company getting hacked and personal info being accessed/stolen.
I had recently signed back for a service with a company I have not done business with for 20 years, they somehow still had my old account info and address details. I was and still am pissed.
Not just hacked or stolen, also freely sold to third parties and governments to aggregate into private profiles
My LiveJournal account is 25 years old as of last week. I’m just going to go back to that for social media.
What are they gonna do, accuse me of being too old for social media?
I went back to fark.com and I’m so happy it’s still doing well.
"well" is up to debate. Ugly like heck, tabular DOM and lot's of content-security-policy errors.