Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.
  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    12 days ago

    So much of what creating privacy busting biometric databases claim to do could be accomplished with speed-of-light geofencing, a.k.a. “distance-bounding protocol”. If a moderator decides messages from country X are problematic, then they can flag/block them for other users. It only requires carefully measuring ping times and basically involves banning traffic from places that can’t achieve certain minimum pings to certain trusted servers.

  • ky56@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    11 days ago

    And I was worried that it was the Australian Governments Digital ID shit that would be what gets in my way. You know what reddit, just do it. It would be the kick I need to completely drop reddit.

    • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
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      12 days ago

      It works: You can tell the real humans because they’ll be the only ones unwilling to do this invasive bullshit. The bots will just come up with something fake to scan and carry on as they always have.

      • meco03211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        12 days ago

        The bots will just come up with something fake to scan and carry on as they always have.

        Like a real human eye? Is this how Skynet starts?

        • Kowowow@lemmy.caEnglish
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          12 days ago

          Wouldn’t it just be reverse engineering what the scanner does? If you have a close enough copy of thesnanning tech couldn’t you have a bot rapidly iterate eyeballs in some form till it can pass the real version a couple times and repeat with the iteration process?

  • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Just no. I use reddit because it’s pseudonimous. I would never reveal my id on reddit of all places, regardless of how useful it can be.

    • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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      12 days ago

      That’s a good point. Out of all the social networks, Reddit has been the least interested in getting your personal identification.

      Most other social networks explicitly require you to provide a phone number, or implicitly require you to register from your home’s IP address, or sometimes both.

  • justadudeingear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    whatever me and everyone else useful is banned. reddit can do whatever the fuck it wants its just a bunch of white supremacists i think.

    • rozodru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      there’s such a painfully obvious agenda over there with the admins. I got a 7 day ban for knocking russians and saying “slava ukraini” then I got a perm ban a week after that for posing the question “how long until an average citizen with an AR decides to deal with ICE themselves?” because apparently both times I was “inciting violence against a minority” because Russians and ICE agents, according to Reddit, are minorities

          • realitista@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 days ago

            Yeah I’m not sure why I haven’t yet. I guess I just keep thinking that there’s some topics like tech that they can’t turn into a propaganda opportunity, but they consistently prove me wrong.

    • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      i have a novelty account i kept around and i just post luigi pictures whenever it gets unbanned. it has probably only been unbanned a week this year

  • danzania@infosec.pubEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I can see why Reddit needs to secure the user base. As not accounts proliferate they need to be able to demonstrate verified real users to their advertisers. Unfortunately for privacy, this will be widespread, in that case. I’m opting out.

  • dkn2038@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    they already have too much info from their users, same as facebook… years ago things like this were heavily rejected (like PIPA act when the SOPA almost happened)

  • F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    You’d have to get me high on PCP + cocaine + some sort of crazy shit like krokodil to just implant the idea that I need to verify my very existence to a private company to post comments online or to enjoy a website.

  • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Tools for Humanity… was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.

    What the fuck