Without bots their most popular text based subs like AITAH or TwoHotTakes would be empty.
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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!
Spez is a spaz that can't spell. Fuck posting anything CEOs say they all suck, take their voice.
And none of them will know about fediverse girl
Everyone other website:
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.
Or Cloudflare.
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.
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.
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.”
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).
Blorp dev here. Let me know if there is anything I can do to make the app even better for you!
This is one of the things I love. Talk about something you like, creator shows up. Wholesome.
Keep it up, you're awesome!
Funny how this ties nicely into Meta’s lobbying for age verification and how it’s suddenly a conversation we keep seeing crop up. The pattern recognition tools in my brain see nothing but constant red flags these days.
They flooded the web with bots, advertisers are backing out because of it, and now both Spez and Zuck are panicking.
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://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ray-ban-smart-glasses-facial-recognition-distracted-2026-2?op=1
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So what's will happen to their existing bot accounts? Erase 75% of their current users?
Spez (Reddit CEO) just put out an announcemen talking about how they'll verify humans via a new rectal probe in collaboration with Meta AI that 3D scans your log factory.
That sounds tempting, but still won't make me rejoin reddit.
The only way I'll ever rejoin Reddit is if they fire that piece of shit, Spez, and every other piece of shit who had a hand in the monetization of their API access which destroyed third party apps like Apollo; and if they change that monetization, either making it free or making it so you have to be a paid Reddit subscriber to have expanded API access.
They did the whole thing with their API completely backwards, on purpose, to shut out the third party apps -- when they could have still been able to make money by doing it properly and not alienating a lot of their userbase.
And now that Reddit is effectively a right-wing cesspool of lies and bullshit, just like Twitter has become, even if they fix what they broke, it may not be worth rejoining.
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There are so many ways to do human verification that have worked for years. The biggest reason bots are plaguing the internet is because these corpos don't really try anymore. There's literally no reason to do face scans or IDs other than to unanonymize people and take their data.
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Ooh, yay! I just swung over myself after my eighth account permaban (with no link to alleged offending comment) within 24 hours of posting about how one of the admins is in regular contact with Ghislaine Maxwell while she's in prison🤔
It's funny how they don't show you the comment.
I just got permabanned within a minute or so of posting something like "The only way to get Trump out of office is for 100,000 people to drag him out.". Appeal denied even though I said it was hyperbole.
I still like the sheer volume of content on Reddit but they are getting worse all the time.
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.
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You have a link to this administrator of Reddit being in contact with Maxwell? Inquiring minds want to know
A Google search later and here we are:
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.
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.
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 should start with all the commenters in the thread praising the Spez.
I wonder if we will actually ever see the true numbers, I have a feeling they will realize that SOOOOOOOOOOO many of the users are bots and be forced to pull a shwitter.
We will see what happens, but I won't hold my breath for actual transparency.
Lol, no. That would hurt their stock price
I don't think they give a shit about bots, as it inflates their traffic numbers and gives the illusion of a more robust user base. This is about gathering your data. They want to know who you are for marketing and other purposes.
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