The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be
Kind of them to get that out of the way in the first sentence. No further reading required.
Lol, why not blood samples? IDs and photos can be faked by AI but not blood…yet.
Lol, why not blood samples?
Could just mail in a stool sample.
What was that movie with the gentic id stuff, gattaca? Yeah, shouldn’t give them too many “good” ideas…
I refuse to use anything that doesn’t allow authentication via bunghole print. It’s just more convenient.
Honestly, I prefer this.
I can stand behind my words.
You’re wishing a glorious doom upon us, my friend.
Ah man, I almost got excited for a second…
this is the best thing about it read on,
whereabouts in st petersburg are you from
Oh for the love of. Just invest in the fucking Activity Pub and similar FOSS Decentralized systems people.
Germany has been running official mastodon instances for politicians and government offices for years
I’m all for it. I think it was the initial vision for the internet and web, and we got sidetracked by growth and commercialization. I do have to wonder if such a move did happen, a sudden shift of mainstream to here (in general, the Activity Pub’s various forms), could it handle it? Fast growth was a huge hit with the Reddit migration(s), and that was “just” Reddit.
I think what will happen is the big name corporate sites will collapse and the amount of online users will drop to just folks that have a use or passionate interest.
Y?
Y U NO Z?
requiring user identification and photo verification
And so they’ve failed before they’ve begun.
I was hoping they’d call it Twitter
Imagine Elon isn’t letting that trademark expire. Only valuable thing left from that $54b.
Just revoke the trademark in Europe
America bad so switch to EU. Oh no, EU bad now, so switch to something else?
Just use something decentralized, fucking hell. Stop having such blind loyalty to countries.
mastodon is also european.
Yeah it’s a stupid title. Some people are trying to make the most of the moment and start their own social network.
This makes it sound like this is an EU-mandated social network.
They should have called it XXX.
Or XOFF
They should have named it Wayland…
requiring user identification and photo verification to prevent bots
Can’t wait until the next next big thing: “F”, for “Fuck you”.
I know that’s not going to be popular around here, but I am kind of curious what an “everyone is a confirmed user” social media site would actually look like, compared to the “whoever has the most bots gets shoved to the top of the rankings” cesspool we have now.
Social media was a mistake. We should have stuck to small forums. Same with real life tbh. Shit, have I become an anarchist now?
Bots will simply use a random id card from the millions of stolen ids
It would probably be the same content-wise. The bots are put there by people that wants to push an agenda. If we somehow reach a point where such a network with only live, confirmed humans exists, they’ll still push their points I guess. After all, we already see prominent account posting batshit crazy thing under their real name, so that would not change much.
And, yeah. It’s not really being an anarchist to think smaller, closer spaces are a good idea. Worldwide, almost universal social connection all the time, even without the constant barrage of garbage, is bound to completely overload our brain. Focusing on smaller communities, hand in these for a limited/controlled duration, things that actual matters, sounds really nice. It’s more of a “technical minimalism”, if we keep things digital.
Yet another attempt at a “lesser evil” just how bluesky appeared to exist. Its essentially the same thing but wrapped in a “European made” wrapper, even it’s policies are the same.
Europe has the capacity to make good software yet garbage like W gets the spot light. Instead of glorifying the aspect that it is European made, consider the quality it provides.
Mastodon is the perfect example here as it both satisfies quality standards and isn’t based in fascist america.
W - EU I guess😭
Bluesky’s original “invite only but each person can invite” makes way more sense for bot management than “requiring photo identification” that can’t be verified and can be generated by ai.
It’s a start but They better cut off oracle and palantir too or this is just smoke and mirrors. Pro genocide pro mass surveillance pro mass incarceration Larry Ellison is behind the digital id that EU governments keep trying to shove down your throats.
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