Humans with human eyeballs are still using Reddit? I thought it was just bots moderating bots by now.
happy cake day
So how much are they paying reddit, exactly…?
I can see why Reddit needs to secure the user base. As not accounts proliferate they need to be able to demonstrate verified real users to their advertisers. Unfortunately for privacy, this will be widespread, in that case. I’m opting out.
Who TF is actually going to want to use these platforms bad enough to do this shit?
Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.
Reddit is mainly just very poorly disguised government surveillance and AI generated advertisement, and none of the content is even enjoyable or enticing. Who TF is their target audience?
You severely overestimate how much the average person cares about their own privacy.
Even so, are they going to acquire, set up, and use an iris scanner just to remain anonymous on Reddit?
It’ll be in yer phone
Probably someday, but the article is describing a dedicated orb device that does this.
Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.
In Canada we passed a regulation that social media sites have to pay our media companies to link to their articles. Google is paying up, but Facebook said no, and has banned news. It has made Facebook here much less terrible.
Who TF is their target audience?
Useful idiots
Bots
don’t kink shame my dude
On the one hand, I understand the inherent limitations of pseudonymous social media and why a corporation and even end users might benefit from authoritative user identification.
On the other hand, oh hell no.
I mean, there’s someone here who has (not even exaggerating) 15+ accounts that they just rotate thru.
It’s a hassle to block them all because I still see new ones, but I’ll take that over “proving myself” as a unique person with something like this.
I haven’t seen like any hilariouschaos users in awhile
I don’t think psudonyms are an issue, but verifying that a user is an actual person vs an AI chatbot is absolutely something that every popular social media platform will need to tackle at some point.
Hmm funny how Sam Altman is one of the few people responsible for creating that problem and now he’s selling the solution to it
He’s a modern day arms dealer.
Why? Internet rules from the days gone by - everyone is a liar. So it shouldn’t matter.
Scan your biounique eyeball to provide ID whilst retaining your anonymity???
Anonymity and the ability for someone else to prove it was me are nearly opposites.
You’d have to get me high on PCP + cocaine + some sort of crazy shit like krokodil to just implant the idea that I need to verify my very existence to a private company to post comments online or to enjoy a website.
If World ID becomes one of Reddit’s third-party providers, it would be good news for Tools for Humanity, which was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.
What the actual fuck.
Seriously how on Earth is that supposed to work?
I read about this a few years ago, and even saw them in a mall in Western EU.
The whole thing is just bio-data mining, and they started by preying on some poor regions in Africa
This will do it. It will finally kill reddit.
Been trying to get people on Reddit to cross over to the light over here but damn it’s hard
Why? I don’t want anyone here to whom it’s not self evident to that it’s better here. For it to stay a better place it needs to keep better people who can make their own decisions using their brains.
lol
lmao, even
scan your eyes to use social media? don’t mind if I DONT lol
I will happily forego any/all social media (and never look back) rather than submit to such an idiotic, intrusive, perverse, and disgusting system.
🤦♀️ 🙄 🤡 🖕 💩
But think of all the convenience you gain by not having to remember a password! That darn brain of mine
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This worldcoin? Yeah, it’s looking real good right now…
are they really trying to make us ponder an orb to get onto reddit
FUCK no.
I thought this was an onion article or something
