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.

    • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      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.

      • robocall@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 hours 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.

        • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
          4·
          10 hours ago

          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’.

      • Hominine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        13 hours ago

        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.

        • low@lemmy.today
          5·
          10 hours 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”

      • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 hours ago

        I (mildly) am concerned about that also…but bear in mind…the difference between Lemmy and Reddit is you can…defederate…from known bad instances. If Lemmy goes in that direction - and we undertake the idea I mentioned here - https://lemmy.world/post/44633911/22828600

        then we can basically recreate a blacklist / whitelist (ala AdBlock). Instance-wide crawlers can still scrape public data, but that’s an ActivityPub protocol constraint, not a Lemmy failure.

        Instance crawling with bots? Sorry, no soup for you.

        Spam bots on bad instances? Blocked from your feed.

        Peak “fine, I’ll do it myself” energy? Yes. But if you’re reading this, you’re 1) part of the resistance (lol) and (2) already here, so …

      • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
        4·
        13 hours ago

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

          • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
            1·
            9 hours 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.

      • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
        3·
        15 hours ago

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

        • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
          4·
          15 hours 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