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

I can't comment on that specifically, but it was reported by pcmag and others

and block browser fingerprinting.

FYI that just makes you stand out like a sore thumb. With the current state of user tracking, it's better to blend in than to look like you're hiding something.

because i am le tired

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 can fairly certainly confirm that influnece agents are active on lemmy. Including plenty of US government connected ones ginning up support for the Iran war. Especially on the larger .world accounts it appears.

So reddit admin targets me, no permaban because I abandon accounts after a second violation, or a first now, just in the first week, for something not even close to promoting violence that they held up on appeal.

Can I make an anonymous account? Like use a vpn, I already use a temporary email like guerilla mail to sign up. Or could I even use Tor to access? I actually kind of need it for networking on some of my work stuff.

i bet my account is still active somehow; i intentionally violated every rule to get banned during the protest and only 3 or 4 communities banned me; and even then they were just shadow bans.

.world is no different than reddit and anyone on that instance should expect such skullduggery.

it's too late for me to leave reddit. 😔

I was saying a lot of questionable luigi mangione related things after that happened, I couched it all, never came right out saying anything, but that might have caught up with me. That was several accounts ago but they can tell it's you still I hear tell even though I use temporary email to sign up.

Tumblr survived botification largely culturally intact

If they said that about Lemmy i would tell them to fuck off

Lemmy will eventually be targeted by the various Age Verification and Social Media laws popping up all over the globe. More of them are being proposed and passed every week and the confusion and risk just grow higher.

As an example my home instance, lemmy.today, is run out of Washington State and they have proposed legislation that could impact us. HB2112 and HB1834 are just two examples.

Even if none of them pass in WA, and one of them surely will, it won't too be much longer before the NSFW instances in the lemmiverse start getting targeted by the wide range of States who already have such laws. Instance operators do not have the money to challenge these laws in court so their options will be: comply, shut down, or get fined into oblivion / risk jail time.

I'm not happy about it but in IMO Lemmy is living on borrowed time.

I mean it's also trivially easy for ai to make a photorealistic image of a human, i dont see how this could possibly ever work. Whatever test they apply would be by definition cheatable by AI.

Absolutely, i mean it's gonna be a computer testing the image for "humanity" so of course a computer could cheat the test.

They can just host in other countries

Me too. I left a couple of years ago 😔️

I suppose I could rejoin, and leave again?

Maybe we can get more people on the Fediverse

Once there's enough people on the Fediverse it will get noticed by the Authorities and when that happens you'll see instances start shutting down as they are unwilling, or unable, to comply with the Age Verification and Social Media laws that are being passed all over the globe.

I'm somewhat surprised that the NSFW instances haven't already been hit by the Age Verification laws that many US States have but as soon as a single state, say Utah, notices the rest of them will pile on and the Fediverse will start to unravel.

This isn't just a US problem either, there's Age Verification and Social Media laws being proposed or already in effect in many Western Nations. Hell the two Australian instances are already afoul of the laws in their country so as soon as their Government notices they are going to have some difficult decisions to make.

That…that doesn’t actually do that.

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

That's not the point of this.

The point of this is to remove unpaid/unauthorized bots. They want their engagement figures to look even better, and they don't want people offering up their advertisements propaganda without paying up.

Their goal will never be to eliminate bots because undoubtedly that is something they want to sell access to and use themselves.

By guaranteeing that certain posts are bona fide humans, their data is more valuable to sell for AI data as well... and they probably have a way to dox users with this too.

Because AI cannot possibly generate faces.

Thank you. This is why I’m here.

-- again. lol

No one ever accused reddit of making good decisions.

JUST IN: Reddit CEO says company is considering requiring all bots on the platform to click on ads in order to drive revenue to Reddit.

They're maximizing ad revenue, that is the rationale.

Dead internet theory becoming more true by the day. I mean, it was already true, now it's just more true.

not even trying to hide it anymore

Nah, other users won't know who you are.

But Reddit can sell your information and send police to your house if you joke about Israel.

I’d be bold enough to say this decision is absolutely on par with their other brain dead decisions.

Yeah lol wat

https://openai.com/index/openai-and-reddit-partnership/

I'll have to take your word for it

Assert dominance.

Why long term progress year over year when you can gamble the future on a quarterly line go up.

I'm on .world and on reddit, and reddit is much, much worse.

spez has a very punchable face. After that API fiasco that forced many devs out of business, i didnt think i can hate him more till now

Or more likely, fascist governments use it to get rid of the undesireables who dare go against their plan. Thats why authoritarian right wingers love AI.

Yeah, WTF is this?

Funny way to spell Arch

/s

I don't use Arch, btw

Take mine too. It's really funny how tumblr banned porn so all the gooners went to twitter and now tumblr is kinda healthy with a really vocal userbase that WILL backlash at any attempt on enshittifying the platform

The biggest con with tumblr is the CEO, but he's too busy making everyone distrust Wordpress.

Comply by drinking a verification can

Dicey source

now it only needs to generate legal documents

I think it more means "we want to sell your face data"

Wtf lol. I won't log in.

Nah, other users won’t know who you are.

Well, at least until the database inevitably leaks

https://www.pcmag.com/news/reddit-could-soon-require-face-id-to-prove-youre-not-a-bot

Huffman indicated the platform may use decentralized third-party information providers to verify users’ personal details.

“Part of the promise to users is we don’t want to know your name," he told the hosts. "But we want to know that you're a person.”

Sure, "we don't want to know your name, we just have to know it or have to have another party that we have access to/a deal with know it"