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.
This is rich.😐
Yea I prefer to get my Reddit news from a gambling site that facilitates bets on human lives.
Goodbye 99% of reddit users.
More lowkey polymarket advertisements.
Why is it the only place I see polymarket is on Lemmy screenshots?
Funny……funny thing…….dont seem to really need Reddit anymore. I like this place and cyberspace more anyway. Zuckbook too. ✌🏻I’m out.
They want to turn Reddit into a rightwing echo chamber. Lately there are so many comments on lemmy about people getting perma banned, including myself, for breaking rule 1. However in most cases, like myself, only made a comment without any harm or even a reference to violence. I only commented that ICE can forget about their payments and bonuses and that in 3 years time, they’ll be sucking immigrant cock behind a Wendy’s. That got me a perma ban after 15 years on Reddit. All these tech bros are bending the knee and getting taken from behind. Such short term thinking will become their downfall. If this happens, it’ll be a good thing for Lemmy.
A year or so ago I also got a permaban on my old reddit account. I never did find out the reason for it, as to my memory none was stated. But I immediately stopped using reddit and after a while started using lemmy when I realized there were better alternatives. Just now I tried to log in to my reddit account to check whether I missed the permaban reason, but now my account is simply “locked” and I need to change my password. The notification message is not the same as it was back then.
Unless it’s THEIR AI bots, right?
IIRC they IP banned people for publishing their bots in a filter list.
You have to pick a server.
I promise you, that’s why
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.
Oh no, how am I going to pick a server?! That’s even harder than choosing a shirt to put on!
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’.
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.
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”
Is there a reason to expect bots won’t overwhelm Lemmy as well?
Most likely, they will. They are not elikely to infect larger instances. Smaller instances will spot them and ban them, I hope.
Why do you expect they will be unlikely to infect larger instances?
Not nearly as much financial incentive for the admins to look the other way
/r/rats and tv show discussions for me
This is basically all I use for now. Lemmy doesn’t have the infrastructure for every TV episode and movie I watch.
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
Because Lemmings can be insufferable sometimes.
Well you are on one of the worst instances.
Have you considered changing instances?
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.
Yeah, we are pretty great 😎
Right… 15 years ago…
I think the downvotes are proving you right 😉
As opposed to Reddit users?
Yes. There’s much more grand standing.
Well yea but it’s because we’re right 👍
Well, Lemmy is not hidden, it’s out there for reddit users who search for alternatives… It has challenges to solve and llm agents might be one of them.
I see the rationale, dead internet theory and all. The problem is that if this happened, I 100% believe Reddit would form a partnership with the US government or oil companies to put bots on their platform and spread misinformation.
Or? I think you mean and. Then throw several more ands in there, including AI platforms, surveillance tech, right wing PACs, and overall enshitification and misinformation.
Too much to ask for an “anonymous” social media platform.
You’re probably already aware, but it bares saying for those who aren’t; it’s not anonymous.
This is what made me finally bite the bullet and switch to lemmy.
well done. sign up for a piefed instance too.
Also just noticed your username. Brothers in poop unite.
first ive heard of it! How does it compare, you use both i take it?
It took a lot of customer abuse to break Reddit’s stranglehold, but they are perilously close to a Digg like migration off their platform. Spez can take a hike into bankruptcy.
Just already made his billions, what does he care
Fuck reddit. I’ve been hanging on for too long until they banned me 3 times in 72 hours. I guess they don’t like criticism of the current regime. Fuck reddit.
The moment you state a fact or something that the folks at Reddit don’t like, you’ll get banned. And it will be a deep ban. You create a new account on same device without sanitizing it , use same network without VPN or join the same subs right after signup, you’ll get another ban.
Best way is to signup on a device, browser and network you never used before, use VPN if you use the same network. Use an email that you’ve never used before. Stay low for 10 days, join random subs here and there and make some subtle comments, maybe a few posts to act genuine. Then for five days, make your 20% activity without VPN, don’t cut VPN entirely because that raises the flag. Keep using the same device and browser for at least 30 days.
Then you can start casually switching to your main devices and network. Stay low for 10 more days when you switch back before joining the same subs where you got banned. This often beats the automated checks and the system doesn’t connect the dots for links between your banned account(s) and new one.
Im not sure reddit is worth that much effort. Meanwhile folks saying stuff reddit likes be like
Yeah, gotta 👉🏻👌🏻 the algo.
Thank you
