Ideally a more critical mass so I can talk about my more niche hobbies. Like looking at video game leaks.

Or something like /r/3d6 on reddit.

I was banned a few years ago now, glad I was.

Exactly this. The bots are coming from inside the house.

The biggest con with tumblr is the CEO

The ban of every website's existence.

Considering how "ban evaders," even when changing devices, moving to different countries and setting up new accounts, are getting miraculously detected and swiftly banned again, I doubt anybody has even a shred of privacy on Reddit.

Yeah...that's it...bots...you don't want to associate all the post history and behavioral data with a real live person and connect whatever data you can find on the open data market with the same real person, collating everything the internet knows about a person into a single profile, destroying anonymity completely, ushering in a new age of Internet censorship and repression and aiding the identification of target groups for political and commercial exploitation? Nah....you wouldn't want to do that, would you?

politics is at lemmy's core, it was literally created by communists & socialists to serve as an online community for leftists; not rightists like liberals or conservatives.

spez is a frigging billionaire. What other principle than making money could possibly have guided him to this point?

Plus...there is a LOT to talk about these days, and most sane takes have been effectively banned from all large platforms lmao, with people helping all this along by voluntarily censoring the DUMBEST FUCKING WORDS in their memes, even, just to further their own reach within those shit holes.

So. Yeah, Lemmy be political.

I wonder how much that would reduce their traffic. Would there be anything but niche groups left?

It’s public knowledge that most of the bots on the platform are intentional to maintain the image that the site is super popular still

I'm not saying you're wrong and I know many people assume that, but is there a clear source for this?

Next step will be to require Video with bop-it style live instructions, stick out your tongue, blink one eye, pick your nose, make finger guns, smile, frown. They won't care that it's not disability friendly.

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.

Ditto!

Well that and they permabanned my 14 year old, 1million karma account for making a post that insinuated Donald is a pedophile that some MAGA got all upset about and they rejected my appeal.

So....fuck em.

I stand with your 14 year old. Same thing happened to me (well, very similar, my message was more in that clot has just one job category).

Facebook tried to make me take a video of myself moving my head around making different facial expressions to prove I was a person. I was like... not even my bank requires that. This was after making a comment that was Trump-negging. So I cancelled it.

It’s just funny coming from such a new account is all.

I dont doubt it, but is there a proper source to share?

Bots will have verification down to the science, done and verified as humans certified... way before actual humans even manage to turn on their cameras.

humanity

Not the best choice of word.

I agree for the most part. But everything isn't just a different political view.

You're literally posting this in an instance where lots of people actively deny the extent of Stalins crimes. Justifying it as "some countries miss the soviet, so he can't have been that bad" as if the Soviet ended with Stalin and didn't continue on for decades after.

I don't know about you. But that is as far away from an echo chamber I think you can get.

Mine was for suggesting Biden drone strike SCOTUS justices immediately after they ruled that the president is effectively above the law. I wasn't advocating for Biden to do anything illegal! 🤣

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

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.

Without blocking browser fingerprinting, they can identify your specific computer regardless of how many different accounts you use or how many different browsers you use.

Correct browser fingerprinting blocking does NOT block attempts to fingerprint. It just generates false information for their fingerprint detection tools.

You said fucking. Bring me my fainting couch. Fuck I don't have one.

Because Lemmings can be insufferable sometimes.

Do they have a T2 distribution for Macs?

Just already made his billions, what does he care

As opposed to Reddit users?

So were Redditors 15-20 years ago, though. This place is exactly like the old Reddit ecosystem. Heavily focused on programming, Linux, and Star Trek. The smaller subs for politics, culture, news, etc take longer to build up.

What are we supposed to get them for a welcoming gift? Was it beans or something?

Yes. There's much more grand standing.

Right... 15 years ago...

Maybe they realized that most of Reddit is like Moltbook

You know if you have a printed piece of paper, a magazine. Or even a TV with a face on it, that a camera can't tell if it's a real human or not.

Discord has a similar system in place, people were defeating it with the Photo mode in Death Standing lmao

People keep reposting Tweets from this stupid gambling site ugh

Is there a reason to expect bots won't overwhelm Lemmy as well?

You have to pick a server.

I promise you, that's why

I actually made my account here recently because of that post. I'd be surprised if I'm the only one. We may not get everyone on reddit, but a sizable chunk leaving and review bombing them in the app store could gain their attention.

Fuck reddit. I've been hanging on for too long until they banned me 3 times in 72 hours. I guess they don't like criticism of the current regime. Fuck reddit.

Yeah, we are pretty great 😎

most sane takes have been effectively banned from all large platforms lmao,

Buckle up, it's about to get a lot worse when you won't even be allowed to use social media until you submit to a face scan like op was trying to share.

Thanks for the welcome

Well yea but it's because we're right 👍

Nah, we give them well thought out insults for not joining us sooner.