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Reddit and FaceID Verification (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by kamayatu24@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Steve2734@lemmy.ca 61 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Thank you. This is why I’m here.

[–] Angrydeuce@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Ditto!

Well that and they permabanned my 14 year old, 1million karma account for making a post that insinuated Donald is a pedophile that some MAGA got all upset about and they rejected my appeal.

So....fuck em.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mine was for suggesting Biden drone strike SCOTUS justices immediately after they ruled that the president is effectively above the law. I wasn't advocating for Biden to do anything illegal! 🤣

[–] LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Well that depends. Were you suggesting that he do that officially or unofficially?

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I had a similar account that got banned for connecting to the wrong VPN endpoint. Clicked a random server from my VPN provider, suddenly my account was permanently banned with no ability to appeal

Thinking it was just some issue on my end (it was a non-standard looking ban), I logged into another OG account of mine, which also promptly got perma-banned

Extreme incompetence for them to be issuing perma-bans like that based on IP address

[–] TheLastOfHisName@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago

Welcome aboard!

[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

I stand with your 14 year old. Same thing happened to me (well, very similar, my message was more in that clot has just one job category).

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Good, next step is installing Artix :3

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Funny way to spell Arch

I don't use Arch, btw

[–] TheLastOfHisName@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just moved to CachyOS when I learned about Artix. The distro hopping never truly ends, does it? LOL.

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

It ends with LFS >:3

[–] Steve2734@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do they have a T2 distribution for Macs?

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

I was making a rather annoying joke. LFS might work on with Asahi's bootloading, but then you are dealing with Linux From Scratch which could only ever make sense to any degree with Nix

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Steve, ain’t we glad to have ya! Welcome :)