There's no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, "bots that aren't paying us."

So the entire point of reddit, the anonymity, is to be thrown out the fucking window lmao

Requiring face ID AFTER genAI has become great at generating faces is certainly a decision

I'm a new lemmy user because of this

in order to crack down on ~~AI~~ unprofitable bots

I'm sure they'll have no issues allowing bots that align with their interests

Im sure the website that sold userdata to every single AI company to train their models on wouldn't ever even think of selling the faces of every one of its users to a company to train its AI face generator on.

Or that the website which accidentally admitted "the most reddit addicted city" is an air force base that hosts their online counterintelligence teams... Where was I going with this? Hmm must be nothing.

I made the switch to Lemmy today, feels old school kind of good.

Reddit is not only allowing for bots to run rampant, but also it’s managed by the Epstein class and their supporters.

BREAKING NEWS! Reddit figured out how to make their platform even shittier

So when is this happening, so we can mentally and logistically prepare for the next influx of new users into the fediverse?

Since when is Polymarket's Twitter account a reliable source of information?

The real problem was third party clients I swear

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.

Lemmyflation is real

Do it. I can't wait for it.

Watch /r/politics posts go from 22k upvotes to 3k upvotes overnight.

a big reason people won’t come to lemmy is the content is a political echo chamber and defederation is confusing as a concept to most people. i agree with most political opinions i see on here, but it’s kind of annoying to just see politics every time i open the app. maybe i just need to get better at tuning my feed, but most of the popular subs are political in some way.

Inb4 bots pass this and my face is rejected

I mean, requiring FaceID is a horrible idea, but there maybe might be a better alternative (I'm talking about the general idea of a "proof of humanity" online, not specifically using this solution).

The fact of the matter is that bots are a massive issue online. When russia got sanctioned and cut off from the western Internet, r/Conservative went radio silent for a couple of days - until they figured out how to VPN through the Netherlands. There are whole communities where bots discuss bot-posted content. And I have no doubt in my mind that it will also happen on Lemmy as soon as there's even a hint of profit* to be found.

* "profit" not as in "monetary gain", but as "any kind of gain, be it money, influence, propaganda, chaos", etc., etc.

I don't care, because reddit, but this makes me wonder if you can just have an AI generate a generic face and feed that in.

It's obviously not about bots. Isn't spez friendly with Peter Thiel?

get ready for an influx of users to Lemmy I guess.

My laptop’s TPM requires a pint of blood to allow booting to an OS. Two pints if it’s Linux.

Yea I prefer to get my Reddit news from a gambling site that facilitates bets on human lives.

So glad I ditched reddit.

I used to assume most of the bots belonged to Reddit. I still do, too.

Goodbye 99% of reddit users.

Lemme get this straight

foster a website that encourages engagement instead of real human interaction bots flood the website to farm engagement with months and years-old reposts obliterate your API support, causing an exodus of users that use 3rd party apps slowly hemorrhage users while going IPO with your bot site now mandate id checks so we can weed out the bots that made your IPO look so good

Genius play by Spez. (/s)

More lowkey polymarket advertisements.

Why is it the only place I see polymarket is on Lemmy screenshots?

If the massive waves of permabans they have been doing for anti-trumpers weren't enough, this should kill the website entirely.

This data surely goes straight to Palentir

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 see the rationale, dead internet theory and all. But I 100% believe that if this happened, Reddit would form a partnership with the US government or oil companies to put bots on their platform and spread misinformation.