Any verification is wrong. Like everything in life, it will only impose a restriction on people who don't have the ability to circumvent it at best. The only reason this would go forward is if it can be used against those people somehow. Data collection. Censorship.

Need to go the other way. Lean in not away. Look at why bots exist. Find ways to jam that system up. Like if it's a bot trying to promote a new movie. Every comment should be shitting on that movie. If it's a bot in November trying to post the latest drop ship night light star projector on r/coolstufftotallynotjustads well I'm pretty sure my cousin bought that lamp and was the reason his house burned down. For a couple years let's fuck it all up. Make the internet inhospitable to politics, business, advertisers. If it's some racist Facebook group, they pay ads to promote their bot group, so post it here on lemmy and report spam the group since they use bots to moderate. Chase them the fuck out. If they try to stop us it'll cost them millions and us nothing to find new ways. Their option is to either restrict us to the point their platforms suck or they have to increase the number of bots costing them more and more and more until it's not worth it. Go to fucking war with them and take the internet back instead of going the route of giving DNA samples to some 3rd party owned by meta just to look at porn.

I don't know. I'm just done with it all. I like to image a world 20 years ago where we all saw the internet moving towards corporate interest and we chased them out. Instead they now create a problem and sell the solution and we all clap and fucking cheer

Hitler was much easier to kill as a baby. That's all.

After I posted this I came across a topic that is likely filled with bots pumping it. Get in early. Look for indicators. Tag and bag them. But there's needs to be some type of community for this. Like a scambaiters

"Famous Influencer Druski under flame for doing "Whiteface" after a video of him making fun of Erika Kirk surfaced online.."