got the notification to verify my age when trying to access NSFW posts or profiles already for a few weeks now, but as of today my whole account is blocked unless I verify. I guess that’s it then. Based in Austria btw, so there is no specific law in place that forces Reddit to implement this and I will definetly not give my personal information to Persona, a company that belongs to Peter Thiels Palantir group.
It’s better here anyway. Spez has banned everyone and there’s only bots left.
debatable that it’s better here, the ideal is to use nothing.
sure, it’s a lot less fashy on lemmy, but goddamn there are some shockingly dense motherfuckers on this website that are worse than redditors. the top comment on basically every article posted to lemmy is someone aggressively and angrily asking a deeply ignorant rhetorical question for attention, and it’s usually answered by the article. at least reddit sometimes has a decent comment at the top.
i swear half of lemmy is just people going “i literally don’t understand this simple thing and it’s also the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard” when in reality it’s just a bunch of people inside of a social bubble that don’t understand the actual world around them, like, at all. and i don’t mean just politically, i mean generally.
never going back to reddit but there are just so many shamefully stupid people on lemmy, it’s grating.
I literally don’t understand how you could just come out and say the stupidest thing in the world ;)
Yeah lemming’s brains are melted. Literacy in the bit.
Commenting on an article without reading it should carry the penalty of a day in the stocks.
Sometimes I want to know what actually happened in the article to know if it’s worth reading without giving some clickbait bullshit the benefit of my clicks.
Asking for a title adjustment, mirror, or source of a transcript with intent to read shall be a valid defence under the law. However said comment must not otherwise violate the tenants of the law nor contain inducements for others to do so.
you can block those instances, and communities. tankies are the worst, and a few instances for some reaso blahaj will ban you for anything too.
Everybody reading this: IKR, those idiots are so frustrating.
I already made this account a while ago, but never really got into Lemmy so much, since it’s so damn hard to post videos here - that is the main reason I still used Reddit more - you can just drop videos there without having to use other video platforms that require you to make an account too,…
ehhh. the nsfw community is a bit lacking. which, like it or not, drives user engagement and boosts content creation.
We defederated the NSFW instance because they allow a fauxbait community.
What is fauxbait, you may wonder? Well, you’ve probably heard of jailbait, which is nudes of children who look like adults. Fauxbait is faux jailbait. It’s nudes of adults who look like children who look like adults.
And often these are regular consenting adult porn models, who look like adults, but some pervert went “nyehehe these women look like children” and posted them to this community. And I think that’s degrading and harmful to these women’s livelihoods. I wouldn’t want someone to look at My boobs and decide I looked like a kid.
Furthermore, according to Australian law, framing a picture as child porn (or fake child porn) makes it child porn. It’s kinda the same problem as the 4000 year old dragon who looks like a little girl.
Is it better than r/jailbait and all the pedo shit on Reddit? Sure. But it’s still pedo shit, and I want a social network with zero pedo shit.
cool.
Welcome to lemmy!
01/01/1901
Get with the times, grandpa
01/01/1969
Yours, too?! Crazy!
Eventually you’ll die of old age before you can finger scroll all the way up on wheel from the current year.
That’s obviously wrong.
You think that, but scrolling all the way down gets increasingly longer faster than you think.
Sorry, no, I mean like “that comment is from user obviously wrong.”
No that’s a common misconception, it’s spelled O’bviouslywrong, an old family name. Computers just hate symbols.
I will not play games that require tpm and secure boot, and I will not use software that requires any sort of identity verification to use. the internet is simply a tool for entertainment for most of my uses, communication is optional.
is it reddit doing something drastic recently? seen an uptick .
they are continuing to digg their own grave.
They overextended their shaft and the balloon popped. 👻
you need to take a photo of your balls to use reddit now and new accounts cannot login to old reddit as this feature is now restricted to only existing accounts that are older
Even my old account isn’t working on old anymore. Except on my phone for some reason (possibly just haven’t logged back into it on that since whatever changed). Makes it really easy not to hang around on that site after reading whatever drags me there in the first place.
It’s not consistent, I switched to an old dormant account that have not been used at all in at least a year and it went on old fine.
That’s why i started using Lemmy
Better late then never. Welcome to the party.
You need to create an alias and not forget it, so you can use a completely different “person” on these shitty sites. I’ve got a dozen email addresses with names, birthplaces, dates, etc. never know who I am.
Fingerprinting knows
Multiple vpns, paid and free, adblocking and blocking tracking at DNS level, ublock origin, different browsers and operating systems. Good luck. I probably look like some frankenstein user.
And even if you do fingerprint it, you’re fingerprinting a useless alias, so who cares.
The more intricate your configuration, the easier you are to fingerprint. Because nobody else has your exact configuration. For it to not matter, you have to have a sufficiently complex unique fingerprint for every instance of being fingerprinted.
Cookies for the masses, fingerprints for everyone else. It is actually quite difficult to truly be anonymous on the internet today.
Well you do you, I’ll do me.
I wasn’t suggesting you do otherwise. Just trying to keep folks informed.
If you’re interested in fingerprinting, check out this site. It will tell you how sites see your exact configuration.
I tried it. Unfortunately it is wrong in several of statements about my machine. Since it cannot detect the specifics of my machine nor its settings, one can conclude that either this website is wrong or my settings for protection work well. Hard to fingerprint someone when their are inaccuracies.
IIRC they can fingerprint you based on your writing style and interests.
thats not all they do, they look at your browser , timezones. how long you linger on a page on reddit and if you are scrolling or commenting, up and downvoting.
That’s what I do when I get a notice like this. Accept that I just move on.
Redlib if you must keep using Reddit. If not, alternative forums, fediverse included, invite you.
At this point, it doesn’t make any sense to use Reddit at all. Just go to the Lemmy and the fediverse.
Or if you hate yourself, you can also try 9gag, there’s not much difference now between that and Reddit.
Why are people still on reddit? Might as well go join Truth Social or X if you care that little about what you’re contributing to.
Not all communities have an equivalent here.
Create those communities or post in other existing communities with a similar topic.
I know it’s annoying if you are the first one and no one react to the content but someone has to start.
I am mostly consumer of these subs and I don’t have an interest in changing this. I also have no ideology behind this. If the stuff I need is on reddit, I’ll simply keep using reddit for these things as long as reddit works. Once they lock me out, I am out.
no niche communities here, plus other large subs have no equivalent here.
Use ublock origin element zapper tool
not able to use that on my company laptop sadly …
Yet you can use reddit?
yeah, I was also surprised but it works. I guess I could also argue that I would need it for research ;)
no porn for you 🎻
I guess you haven’t read the text under my screenshot - this doesn’t happen on NSFW subs or posts anymore, I cannot access ANYTHING anymore, the complete account is blocked unless I verify.
just use redreader like everyone else, and stop with the drama
jan 1 1964, or wherever my scrolling lands me.
I didn’t think there was anyone left on Reddit but bots
The oldest redditors got shadow banned because their posts were too valuable to the IPO to show up as blocked or deleted user (the story varries, but my friend ended up getting banned for joking about putting a lock on one of those uhauls full of proud boys (back when they were renting uhauls before Uhaul said they couldn’t anymore)
Those of us here originally, are the ones who deleted their accounts, contrary to what reddit believed would happen.
I know at least one of you will read this, and I am here to receive a powerful high five.
I know two people still using it. Thing is, quite a lot of gaming communities are pretty much dead here, while there are still enough flesh and bone users on reddit (plus eight times as many bots, but there will always be someone to respond within a day if you have a question).
Of course it’s not like there are only these two options and nothing else, but where would you go to for decently paced discussion? Honest question: I had left reddit a long time ago, but I won’t find pre-existing answers on Lemmy for a good number of games, and most of the communities here seem to be bone dry.
nsfw especially on reddit filled with bots more than other subs.
I assume they only require people to verify, and they let the bots roam freely without any supervision or am I wrong and it will remove bots from Reddit?
no you’re correct. reddit corp does NOT want to do anything about its bot infestation. even the apipocalypse carved out exceptions for the botnets that make their entire platform function.
bot content spew keeps doomscrollers doomscrolling and pumps up the metrics that they’re intentionally manipulating to appear like organic traffic. having their cake and eating it too, even to the very end of everything the platform used to stand for
I’m convinced this is true. Ever since the big redesign in 2018 (holy shit was it really eight years ago?) that kind of homogenized the whole platform, it became clear that the people reddit was trying to attract was not the communities but the mindless scrollers.
But the paradox was that some person had to want to post the content and make it feel alive, but that person is not needed anymore.
Facebook is entirely slop, scams, and bottom of the barrel memes but they make billions from attracting the dumbest users who will click on ads and that’s where reddit wants to be.
same reason mr musk cried about bots on twitter constantly and promised to wipe them out only to make it more artificial and manipulated than it ever has been (i’m told)
2018 is when propagana bots/troll farms started to appear , and thats when they started banning significantly even for the slightest misunderstanding, it obviously got worst overtime.
thier purges last year did a huge number on thier engagement thought, they overcompensated, and then open-ai and google stopped scraping so now they are tyring to force logins so people can be datamined again.
I was being snarky. I have no idea how the bot accounts on Reddit are organized or managed, I’m just some dude.
the individual users who spam, would have a bunch of device they operate with multiple(dozens) of accounts each using services to host multiple browser instances at once, to seperate accounts from each other, so they dont get immediately connected by reddits filters. also multiple IP from different sources at once, and yes they spend money to do this, and this seperate the propaganda bots/spammers you hear done by countries.
I was being snarky as well, and not towards you.
In some circumstances I would actually stand behind user verification on Reddit/Reddit-like forum.
If that meant:
no bots, if you can really be sure that a user is a real person,
real freedom of speech, with real consequences for real people that abuse it (perma ban doesn’t mean much if you can just create a new account).
no flood of low quality AI content.
elimination of troll farms and institutional propaganda accounts…
But knowing current corporations, I am sure, the control applies only to us insignificant people, organized farms will keep on flooding, maybe some of them will have to pay to Reddit (those who didn’t already).
I don’t really have that much of a problem with the age verification as it is - my problem is that the only means to do so is giving my personal information to Persona, a very shady company with a not so good data protection record (they are part of Peter Thiels Palantir group, I guess that says it all).
There’s real people on there but they’re extremely difficult to differentiate between the bots. Everybody on there sounds the same.
