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.
wait wait wait reddit is against AI bots? news to me… https://documentingourdecline.substack.com/p/ai-bots-appeared-after-reddit-partnered
(Why exactly would anyone believe that face ID verification can stop AI bots? Have they seen how well generative AI can generate videos of humans?)
Wow, I knew the problem was bad, but… Jesus. How do we prevent something like this from happening on Lemmy/Piefed if they end up getting really popular? I guess the fact that post history isn’t private here helps
It’s probably going to be even harder to prevent here because due to federation it’s very easy to open multiple accounts across instances and no instance admin has full user data of accounts on other instances…
But it also provides the opportunity to move to instances (and their communities) where the problem is well-managed, if any exist.
It might be harder to manage with federation but, at the same time, it makes corruption more difficult. Reddit is a good example of this. They could manage this problem well but they don’t, because the corrupt overlords that manage it are a single point of failure for the entire network. That would never happen with lemmy/piefed because we could, like you said, just switch instances
We can only hope it keeps being “niche”. Right now I wouldn’t spend an hour or a buck to make guerrilla-bot-ads here. You need 1000views to generate 1 click. and 1000clicks to generate one sale. Roughly. That shit just wouldn’t fly here…YET.
True, but I think it would be a good thing if this place was less niche. The world would be a better place if Lemmy/Piefed surpassed Reddit in terms of total users. Open protocols > corporate overlords. That said the federation aspect of it might make it disjointed enough to maintain that niche feeling. Your particular instance could still be niche even if the wider fediverse is not
this is how i use lemmy (and the fediverse to a very large degree) and it gave me my reddit niches back to me.
Also true. But I would assume that any tech-billionaire that would be started to get threatened by lemmy would just kill it :-(
You cannot kill the will of the people. Relevant video
You know you can host your own instance, right? With total population n=1 (just you)? Federating with a micro instance might be difficult but from what ive read, it should be possible - you just need an old laptop to act as your always on server and some know-how.
Yeah but ideally you’d want to federate with the wider fediverse, where there may be bots. Because a social network with population one sounds no fun
That’s kind of the point.
You can selectively federate with instances you trust, rather than opening the floodgates to the entire fediverse all at once. Start small, allowlist specific instances, and expand from there.
You get the social connectivity without immediately inheriting everyone else’s bot problem.
Right I see. That is an advantage
Yes, I believe so. Time will tell, but the architecture is baked in.
“Nice” read, thanks for sharing. I miss the interwebz from when it all started. I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago!