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.

  • ageedizzle@piefed.ca
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    7 days ago

    True, but I think it would be a good thing if this place was less niche. The world would be a better place if Lemmy/Piefed surpassed Reddit in terms of total users. Open protocols > corporate overlords. That said the federation aspect of it might make it disjointed enough to maintain that niche feeling. Your particular instance could still be niche even if the wider fediverse is not

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      7 days ago

      Your particular instance could still be niche even if the wider fediverse is not

      this is how i use lemmy (and the fediverse to a very large degree) and it gave me my reddit niches back to me.

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      6 days ago

      Also true. But I would assume that any tech-billionaire that would be started to get threatened by lemmy would just kill it :-(