Can we not quote a Polymarket tweet? WTF.
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BREAKING NEWS! Reddit figured out how to make their platform even shittier
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.
You made the right choice by coming here.
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.
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Watch /r/politics posts go from 22k upvotes to 3k upvotes overnight.
I'm a new lemmy user because of this
Welcome! It's WAY quieter over here because it's mostly people, not bots.
I've been on reddit for 15 years (on and off again, deleting my accounts and then re-signing up later).
I'm looking forward to a fresh start here.
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Samsies
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never been happier to have been banned for no reason at all
They made it easier for bots to thrive by allowing hidden post histories, limiting the API, and punishing users for "bad" reports, but claim they need face ID to filter out bots?
They need to filter out unauthorised bots. There'll still be a fuckton but they'll be spreading the right propaganda.
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?
Well, you have to believe that.
I used to assume most of the bots belonged to Reddit. I still do, too.
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The real problem was third party clients I swear
There's no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, "bots that aren't paying us."
Reddit, very famously, used bot traffic at its inception to create the illusion of a community big enough to compete with Digg.
It was the OG "fake it till you make it" business.
As the company implements an increasingly draconian "ban every account that looks at me sideways" admin policy, I'm not sure if "2/3rds of the traiffc" isn't lowballing it. There are entire threads - from initial post to bullshit bottom comment - that get created by bot traffic on the modern site. It's a full blown hall of mirrors over there.
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Im sure the website that sold userdata to every single AI company to train their models on wouldn't ever even think of selling the faces of every one of its users to a company to train its AI face generator on.
Or that the website which accidentally admitted "the most reddit addicted city" is an air force base that hosts their online counterintelligence teams... Where was I going with this? Hmm must be nothing.
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If the massive waves of permabans they have been doing for anti-trumpers weren't enough, this should kill the website entirely.
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I mean, requiring FaceID is a horrible idea, but there maybe might be a better alternative (I'm talking about the general idea of a "proof of humanity" online, not specifically using this solution).
The fact of the matter is that bots are a massive issue online. When russia got sanctioned and cut off from the western Internet, r/Conservative went radio silent for a couple of days - until they figured out how to VPN through the Netherlands. There are whole communities where bots discuss bot-posted content. And I have no doubt in my mind that it will also happen on Lemmy as soon as there's even a hint of profit* to be found.
* "profit" not as in "monetary gain", but as "any kind of gain, be it money, influence, propaganda, chaos", etc., etc.
Every so often r/conservative traffic dies down and the subreddit turns much more centrist. It's never liberal by any stretch but you'll actually see lots of criticism poke through. Same thing happens with r/politics occasionally. Reddit is just astroturfed so heavily that there isn't a point to it anymore. You have worse than a coinflips odds on replying to an actual human.
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how many of us noped the fuck outa there when they tried to force their garbage app on us...? this will only hasten it's demise.
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Ah yes, because bots absolutely haven't managed to fake/generate faces now have they...
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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.
I would tell folks on Reddit to come to the fediverse but I deleted all my reddit accounts.
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Reddit should crack down on human users instead! Let Reddit be AI Bot Exclusive space!
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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.
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