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.
More lowkey polymarket advertisements.
Why is it the only place I see polymarket is on Lemmy screenshots?
I’m so used to ignoring who tweets are from that I didn’t notice till you mentioned it and scrolled back up, lol
As someone with a problematic relationship with alcohol, from a family of the same, i get addiction, but I don’t get gambling. The way it’s become normalized by society is so weird to me.
Why are we using polymarket as a source?!
This is just a post from Polymarket. The information was taken from another source, they just posted it.
That…that doesn’t actually do that.
Because AI cannot possibly generate faces.
I’m glad they violated my account for a non violation and denied my appeal in the first week of opening a new account then. They aren’t trying to make their moderation believable, I’m persona non grata for whatever reasons, to appease the administration I presume.
Fuck them, glad I stayed off. I kind of need the help on some stuff though, there just aren’t enough people or communities on here yet.
i bet my account is still active somehow; i intentionally violated every rule to get banned during the protest and only 3 or 4 communities banned me; and even then they were just shadow bans.
I was saying a lot of questionable luigi mangione related things after that happened, I couched it all, never came right out saying anything, but that might have caught up with me. That was several accounts ago but they can tell it’s you still I hear tell even though I use temporary email to sign up.
Yeah, it’s become crystal clear that they just multiple data warehouses and server side tracking to identify people.
Requiring face ID AFTER genAI has become great at generating faces is certainly a decision
No one ever accused reddit of making good decisions.
I’d be bold enough to say this decision is absolutely on par with their other brain dead decisions.
Next step will be to require Video with bop-it style live instructions, stick out your tongue, blink one eye, pick your nose, make finger guns, smile, frown. They won’t care that it’s not disability friendly.
Discord has a similar system in place, people were defeating it with the Photo mode in Death Standing lmao
Facebook tried to make me take a video of myself moving my head around making different facial expressions to prove I was a person. I was like… not even my bank requires that. This was after making a comment that was Trump-negging. So I cancelled it.
They’re maximizing ad revenue, that is the rationale.
Well no. Then it’s only a matter of time before pranksters use your digital face for nefarious purposes.
Or more likely, fascist governments use it to get rid of the undesireables who dare go against their plan. Thats why authoritarian right wingers love AI.
Yeah…that’s it…bots…you don’t want to associate all the post history and behavioral data with a real live person and connect whatever data you can find on the open data market with the same real person, collating everything the internet knows about a person into a single profile, destroying anonymity completely, ushering in a new age of Internet censorship and repression and aiding the identification of target groups for political and commercial exploitation? Nah…you wouldn’t want to do that, would you?
I hope they do it, so that they (Reddit) crash and burn.
I also hope they don’t do it, so that we don’t turn Lemmy into Reddit 2.0 due to max influx.
Realistically? If they do end up doing it, I wouldn’t be surprised if no one over there bats an eyelid.
Point of order: Facebook already tried this
https://m.facebook.com/help/159096464162185/
Remember: enshittification can only exists until the moment it induces enough friction. Then people push back. Cf online streaming in 2013 vs 2026.
We’re not quite there yet. TBTB are doing a stellar job of increasing the water temp almost imperceptibly.
Can we not quote a Polymarket tweet? WTF.
not even trying to hide it anymore
The only reason why Reddit is anywhere close to where it is right now and not considered the sweaty place it was was right after 4Chan in dissociability is Reddit’s data sharing with Google and the reception of better search rankings.
I’m curious if anyone has found a story indicating that they actually want a photo of your face? The original Engadget article seems to indicate that they’re talking about Apple FaceID/TouchID, not an actual image upload.
Apple stores all biometrics data locally on the device. Reddit wouldn’t ever see your face if this is the case; they would just get the passkey token generated by the secure enclave. Am I misunderstanding why this is causing outrage?
Dead internet theory becoming more true by the day. I mean, it was already true, now it’s just more true.
This is rich.😐
