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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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[–] SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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 ...