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If you make a new account a post something vaguely critical of this administration you get shadow banned.
Then you complain about the human to bot ratio?
silly, reddit moved past that, you can get shadowbanned almost as fast you create a account. apparently it so sensitive now, that posting too fast, or in a sub with high karma, or cqs score, or not doing genuine scrolling will get you shadowbanned. i suspect that is why they start closing posts much earlier than usual, on the shadowban sub, to silence people from discussing thier bans.
its reccommended to "warm up your account before posting"
These barriers filter out real people. The ones that get through are determined. They will have a vested interest in doing so. Such as bot farms, state actors to garden variety internet trolls, or other agents with ulterior motive.
The average user isn't going to be figuring out how to game the system. They'll frustrate and leave. Or even continue posting unaware their posts and comments are not visible.
What's stupid is that reddit has filtered for the lowest common denominators (read: idiots). A while back was ridiculed on reddit for saying you need to bake accounts. The digital literacy has stooped so low that users on there can't fathom such a concept.
i always criticized various times, when on reddit articles like these pop up about reddit having too much bots, reddit doesnt do enough to stop them, goes after normal people, of course there are serial people that get banned. buts nothing like the bots/spammers. the ones that can bypass this already can do it with hundreds of accounts. reddit needs the bots to look like they have alot of users, plus propaganda helps with a constant stream of engagement. im on another forum where they have various tactics/paid methods to game the system, they arnt stopped although they said reddit recently changed something so thier detection is even better now.
my theory is reddit doesnt want to spend any resources Moderating people anymore, they just want people to just browse the site and log on, of course ad revenue exposure.
Yeah, and thank you for that by the way, dickhead.
Seriously. The entire internet is just Google, Meta, Reddit, and TikTok now.
So, is there a way for us to be that next generation where we can verify that we're human?
Dicks out for verification
What… what if you don’t have one…?
I don't know how you guys walk around with those things.
~They do make strap ons.~
No one said it had to be yours.
A dick is just a clitoris that got reconfigured by one's genetics prior to birth, I'm sure those would count too. The few folk with rare genetic conditions that cause them to be born without any genitals at all will be out of luck though.
the default sex is female, if the anti-meullerian hormone isnt for some reason released in male fetal development. or the sry gene in the y chromosone is misisng.
No, you misunderstand. Dicks are out for verification. We need a new method that doesn’t depend on the patriarchy.
Use your local equivalent!
Humanity isn't something we verify it is something we cultivate.
The obsession with verification comes from an empty conception about humanity.
The question isn't really how do we verify which of us is human, the question is what spaces have degraded sufficiently that the mark of human interaction is no longer discernible in the noise and what are the mechanisms in which they have done so?
Systematic tolerance or indifference to hatespeech is one great way to degrade the humanity of a space for example.
Yeah, just let Sam Altman scan your eyeballs with an orb and he'll certify you're human. Nothing dystopian about that and certainly no potential for abuse.
We'll make our own internet then! With free software sharing! And Fediverses! In fact, forget the normal internet! :)
Not that any of these people contributed to it or anything...
I torch the forest to the ground
I bet this ground will be lush again! - I say triumphantly to the ash wasteland around me
reddit is mostly bots now. 50-60%