I was waiting for this move, it was the final straw. now I'm here, happily writing a comment in the fediverse through blorp (foss).

I'm totally with you, I would also add that recently meta said that they wanted to add facial recognition to their "smart" glasses.

they said that "We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns"

Source:

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/meta-plans-to-add-facial-recognition-to-its-smart-glasses-report-claims/

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ray-ban-smart-glasses-facial-recognition-distracted-2026-2?op=1

A Google search later and here we are:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_evidence_that_reddit_user_maxwellhill/

Haven't read this thread specifically but I see it's four years old. Plenty of goings on by the Internet sleuths since then. Believe /r/Epstein is where a lot of where I read was? May have to do some archive digging, since my accounts have been fully nuked just for mentioning this information, with absolutely no links provided by myself. Can't imagine the threads are all surviving it as well.

Blorp dev here. Let me know if there is anything I can do to make the app even better for you!

Keep it up, you're awesome!

Every other website:

While the corpos are stomping on their own feet, it turns out that doing nothing (i.e. just existing) is the best strategy to apply.

Now perhaps we’ll get more (hopefully) good folks onto Lemmy. Sure, Digg may get some too, but I’m not sure of its long-term privacy respectfulness - being subject to the US laws and all that.

This guy has a history of doing that.

Or Cloudflare.

This is one of the things I love. Talk about something you like, creator shows up. Wholesome.

Getting rid of bots on reddit wojld be as easy as image recognition the same chicks every fucking day aross a million subreddits.

Bots suck but so does age verification

They flooded it with bots, what do you mean?

I think like Bitcoins creation hardwares technological advancement made it inevitable. Google made the tech, basic AI research, which became modern AI when they threw more compute at it.

I got banned from here as well for saying verified facts with evidence. Its all the admins discretion in the end, and they're political.

No, they made the third party app developers pay the license fees, not the users. If they changed that since I left, then that I'm ignorant of. It made zero sense to force payment from the developers and every sense to simply create a two-tiered API where maybe only a read-only front page works (no commenting) unless you're a paid subscriber to Reddit, which could be available via an authorization scheme on the logged-in user. It's simple to do. But they decided (at the time) to screw over the third party developers directly by forcing them to pay.

Thing is, even Christian (the guy who made Apollo) said a nominal fee makes sense and he would have been fine paying that, but he would have had to pay literal millions of dollars within like a month's notice in order to keep going, and have to pass that exorbitant cost onto his users who ALREADY paid him for yearly subscriptions/etc.

Simply put: Reddit should only have charged users directly, via subscription to Reddit, in order to use a fully-featured API irrespective of which client they use it through.

Spez is a greedy piece of garbage.

Websites should copy VKontakte and make the user line-up several words in Cyrillic. It's the hardest one I've ever had to pass, it has to be exactly in the right place 😂

Like a sliding puzzle from Hell.

Doesn't that make it a bad test? It should be easy for humans and hard for machines.

The app is fantastic first off, my only issue is randomly the comments just don't load, despite good connection and posts loading fine, but force stopping and reopening the app fixes it so idk. But def still my fav Lemmy app

Bitcoin was made inevitable by the Great Financial Crisis, not by hardware advancement. Its proof-of-work is based on hashcash from the 1990s. The computing power spent is arbitrary, a consequence of its creator underestimating how quickly Bitcoin would catch on.

Lol, no. That would hurt their stock price

I'm not sure I understand how cloud flare is supposed to help? It clearly doesn't actually work. My Arr stack has an automated cloud flare bypass that seems to have a decent success rate.

Piefed is here talking to you right now. It's all the same shit

Reddit is not going to last another 5 years.

Passkeys? I don't understand how that verifies anything

Lol for those who missed it, the Digg reboot actually failed and shut down, and now they’re planning to reboot it again, this time repositioning it as “Digg for AI agents.”

And none of them will know about fediverse girl

Without bots their most popular text based subs like AITAH or TwoHotTakes would be empty.

So you are suggesting captchas? I used to make a living running a bot farm and whenever my bots would be promoted with a captcha I'd have it solved by a service like 2captcha for the low cost of 0.3cents per captcha

These waves usually turn out better quality users than the lulls when we're otherwise mostly getting the people who've been permabanned from Reddit. So, hopefully we get some good ones!

Posts in the sub are a non-starter. The maxwellhill thing was debunked when it was pointed out that the account was active when Ghislaine was attending well publicized events. You guys are falling for right wing bullshit.

Presumably because one needs a phone app or physical hardware (like a Yubikey) to use them.

I dunno. Shrug

Bitwarden supports them and you can use as many as you want

I think people should experience smaller communities, they are often much higher quality in terms of the actual social interactions (though, we're starting to get our share of trolls and toxic people).

I use user tags pretty heavily, and it is amazing how small Lemmy truly is. I recognize a lot of individual users, and the tag even links back ti whatever post/comment I originally used to tag them.

All the bots will just come to Fedi. I've already seen some.

Are you getting user tags from a third-party Lemmy app? I don't see that feature in the web interface.

My body is ready.

That's how the OG Internet communities were. There would be like 500 total people maybe and you'd see them randomly throughout the week as they were online. You don't know everyone but you recognize most of the names/pfps.

It cuts down on a lot of toxicity when you can actually know who is a jerk and who is probably just having a bad day. It makes the community a bit more empathic and less reactionary.

The F-Droid maintainers added that. It’s probably my fault for not explaining my app well. At the time, I just really wanted to get Blorp on F-Droid, so I didn’t make any sort of argument against the anti feature labels. After that, my focus was mainly on improving the app itself, and I never went back to ask them to change it.

But you’re not the first person to mention this. I should probably fix it.

I think there was a big shift for reddit in 2016 after they bought (and then shut down..) AlienBlue and then launch their official app. That moment it felt like when the number of users just exploded, but with that, the quality of posts (and average age of the user) dropped.

Lemmy/the fediverse reminds me of 2010-2015 reddit (which is a good thing!)

I think they must be - though I can't figure out which one, haha.

I can't figure out how to do it via the website, or Voyager / Mlem on iOS.

Back when Reddit was funny and not a bot hive

Indeed!!

As a side tangent, I used to get so mad on old forums when someone would update their avatar lol I didn't recognize names, I recognized their picture. So if they changed they might as well be a new user until I recognized we've spoken before, haha.

I know! I paid an artist, from the forums, to draw my avatar and paid them to update it for holidays and stuff so it was consistent.

Also, you gotta have a good signature. Why not a live updating image of what is playing in your media player, that could not possibly end badly.

I remember /r/AskReddit being THE spot, and it was great to read on the go since it was just text. All the novelty accounts were awesome, RamblesOffTopic being a favorite of mine haha.

Accounts that are suspected of being bots would be required to verify.

...and r/conspiracy was 80% stuff like birds ain't real and the rest I always assumed was people posting ironically... now I'm not so sure that that was an accurate assessment.

and r/F7U12. It wasn't just a meme it was an entire meme language, kids these days with their gifs and their template sites... smhing my head

5 more users. I assume that's the number of users still stupid enough to still be using reddit. I profoundly apologize to the stupid community who are not using reddit.