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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    You can’t just magically call everything magical in an attempt to discredit and expect anyone thing you’re anybody but dishonest. I’m not spending the evening attempting to keep you on track when you can’t be bothered to read and instead you’re just looking for bullshit arguments and at worst attempting to discredit for whatever personal reason you have.

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      Again: you’re throwing buzz-words around as if they’re explanation enough. I’m calling your thinking magical because it is.

      Prove me wrong by explaining how do you envision coordinating “crowd sourced pattern spotting” (something that has never been done in the history of mankind, because it “crowd” and “pattern spotting” are almost direct opposites).

      There are no “personal reasons” for me saying what I’m saying, nor are my comments “attempts at discrediting”. There’s literally nothing to discredit here, mate.

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          Your proof of your “crowd source this away” idea is a link to a company that very explicitly uses AI to detect trends…? Are you for real right now?

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            It’s evidence that it works. That the missing piece is the crowd source. You said it’s impossible and magical. That is wrong. A problem is the datasets are from before the APIs were locked down. It’s hard to get new data. New methods are needed.

            Dataset is too technical for what I’m saying. But it’s still important here. Communities should be built to combat bots, not ignore the problem. There are ways to identify activity and observe and even interfere to the point that it either costs them too much to keep up or makes them ineffective. But there needs to be the community to build that awareness. Instead it seems like the people that are disadvantaged by these networks and bots also have this mentality to ignore and avoid it all.