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Reddit and FaceID Verification (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by 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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[–] 58 points 5 months ago (33 children)

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    You have to pick a server.

    I promise you, that's why

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You're probably right and this is the first time I've felt kind of glad for the "speed bump" that picking a server on the fediverse has become. We'll get another influx before too long; maybe a "you need to be this clever to ride the ride" checkpoint isn't such a bad thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    That's what I thought when I initially signed up but I'm realizing we lack diversity baaaaaaad. I'd wager 90%+ of users are tech people and we are infamously antisocial, which is rough for a "social media"

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Selecting a server wasn't an issue for me. The RIF app told me to go to .world and I quickly decided it was the right instance for me to start.

    I moreso had to adjust to the slower pace and less engagement on Lemmy compared to reddit, the lack of niche communities, my favorite subs not having a perfect equivalent here.

    I was super pissed off with reddit and am still salty, so my anger committed me to making the commitment to Lemmy. I was addicted to reddit and they took away the app I was using for over 10 years. I wasn't ready for the breakup and was scorned. I was highly motivated to make Lemmy work for me.

    Users need that level of anger and outrage to motivate them.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Oh no, how am I going to pick a server?! That’s even harder than choosing a shirt to put on!

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's weird, but that shit intimidates non technical people, and there are a lot of them. It would need better if it says something like 'Click on the flag of the country closest to where you live' or something like that.

    Linux seems to have managed to do this - I recently did I mint install on my laptop, it was all GUI, no arcane jargon, no need to use the console, really well optimised for the non-technical folk. You'd be surprised how many people see 'server' and think 'I don't have one of those, and I don't think I want one'.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Is there a reason to expect bots won't overwhelm Lemmy as well?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Most likely, they will. They are not elikely to infect larger instances. Smaller instances will spot them and ban them, I hope.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Why do you expect they will be unlikely to infect larger instances?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    They will still infect them but they will be more obvious.

    An unusual comment, you don't know it's a bot.

    Hundreds of unusual comments and doesn't engage with the local community. It's a bot.

    It's partly why online discourse is toxic. There is a disconnect with th real world and online and no social stigma. On a small community instances there is.

    The problem though, will be trying to manage which isntances need to be blocked as they are rampant with bota. If the fediverse grows and there are lots of smaller communities,.it will be harder to keep track. Currently it's small and most instances with active users are familiar.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It still is more populated and has a lot higher activity, which suits slightly better for doomscrolling.

    Lemmy needs to get slightly more popular. And maybe a centralized place to find different instances?
    Like i haven't found any active fitness related ones.

    It's like coming from a convention Hall full of people and going into a minimally occupied hotel.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Centralisation of power is in the first place why we moved away from Reddit. Fuck that.

    You can find your own fitness sidelemmy. There are actually a few I found.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Completely fair, just the difference and lack of constant flow of content is going to put off many people and without a significant enough drive there's no point to get used to the new environment.

    Mind pointing me in a the right direction?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    /r/rats and tv show discussions for me

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This is basically all I use for now. Lemmy doesn't have the infrastructure for every TV episode and movie I watch.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    yeah. and even in the generic tv show communities there are maybe a couple people discussing a new episode, if at all.

    Compared to thousands for a popular show.

    heck, even star trek is barely active compared to reddit. and they did an official migration in the beginning

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  • [+] -9 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    Because Lemmings can be insufferable sometimes.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    So were Redditors 15-20 years ago, though. This place is exactly like the old Reddit ecosystem. Heavily focused on programming, Linux, and Star Trek. The smaller subs for politics, culture, news, etc take longer to build up.

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