First they came for the new accounts but I did not speak out because I did not have a new account...

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[–] 17 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Nothing to do with "Fishy accounts". If you're account is actually deemed a bot account by Reddit, then you're doing something right. Your privacy settings are working if they can't distinguish between you and a bot.

It's an umbrella term and should really say "eventually, all accounts" as they just want you to break your secure privacy settings and let them harvest your data.

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

    I expect “fishy accounts”, in practice, will mean accounts that criticize Israel, Musk, Thiel, etc or support Palestine, Iran, trans people, Lemmy, etc.

    It’ll be a vague, catch all for accounts they don’t like the same way conservatives use pedophile. The actual bots, like actual conservative pedophiles, will be protected.

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

    Your privacy settings are working if they can’t distinguish between you and a bot.

    It seems to me like bot behavior should stand out in a bunch of ways that have nothing necessarily to do with privacy.

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

    I mean it that's their reasoning for wanting your ID/to prove you're a human life force.

    If they can't tell the difference, fuck 'em.

    Obviously they should be able to, but if that's their reasoning, you're doing something right.

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

    If they can't tell the difference, then it at least makes sense for Reddit to want to invoke greater scrutiny and some level of 'anti-bot' testing. I agree the ID thing sounds like a slippery slope, but at least one can say it has some degree of defensible reason.

    Altho personally, I'm thinking it would be better to require a bot account to pass certain dynamic tests that couldn't be easily programmed against. That said, the rise of AI tools probably makes that something of an arms race...

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