Steve Huffman, Reddit’s CEO, said that using biometrics is the “most lightweight way” to verify that it’s a human.
And that’s why I am on Lemmy 😎
By problem, do they mean they found users that aren’t bots?
They’re kicking the actual humans off. Permabans galore.
Reddit is not dying fast enough
it’s not a bot problem. Reddit NEEDS the bots in order to survive. the Problem is that for its advertisers it needs to verify that the ads being served are actually being seeing by humans. that’s it.
Honestly, at this point it’s probably the vast majority of their user base.
Reddit is trying to find a way to fully control bots and identify those who post against Trump and other similar presidents. Fixed.
Fuck reddit
Idk who needs to read this, but reddit does not give one single solitary shit about you. All they care about is your money and your eyeballs on ads. Reddit does not care if you are satisfied with the platform and they haven’t cared for a while now. It’s all about “fuck you, give us your money and data and fuck off.”
In other words, they can’t distinguish bots vs humans for advertising revenue, so they’re going to sacrifice everyone’s anonymity and hope not enough people care.
Nah I am sure they can, but they don’t want to admit it to advertisers because that would cut their revenues
Obligatory fuck spez
King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys
Interesting that govts are also considering biometrics to verify age. Crazy how everyone is clamping down on this at the same time, but I’ve yet to meet real people who like the idea.
Back at the start of the year the UK govt. ran with the excuse that digital id was to prevent migrants working https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o
(which is unbelievable bullshit, if people already pay cash in hand, a digital identity will not change a thing)
I only post on reddit in Japan-related subs because the community (and its knowledge, particularly around legal/financial stuff) refuses to move here. This, however, would be the end of even that. As a small business owner, it is super shitty to lose access to people with advice and knowledge of things around that (particularly taxes).
Stop using Reddit and delete all of your content. You vote every day with your attention, data, & dollar
Getting to all of one’s content is the rub. You can’t delete more than a years’ worth of comments. Reddit locked all the older posts and threads down once the IPO dropped, so they could privatize it and sell it for AI training. Last October, I got permabanned after 14 years there, and could only delete my comments that went back as October 2024.
Weirdly enough, someone (or a bot doing some training?) randomly responded to an ancient (over 7 years ago) comment I made and it popped up in my Reddit mailbox… Shouldn’t be able to get replies as content that old is usually archived and static. But not this. Hmmm. I of course deleted it and worked my way though as many of the threads under that post to find any other comments I may have made, but I could not get to any other content that was as old.
I still maintain a few logins to swing through and check for any more of my content coming up… Going to get as much of it gone as I can. I’m patient.
Steve Huffman, Reddit’s CEO, said that using biometrics is the “most lightweight way” to verify that it’s a human.
Yeah, and it’s more personal data to collect and monetize, eh Spez?
I can’t wait to watch Reddit collapse when this is implemented.
Yeah the only reason I would comment on reddit is anonymity.
Didn’t they collaborate with OpenAI to make it more AI agent friendly?
