Nothing to do with “Fishy accounts”.
If you’re account is actually deemed a bot account by Reddit, then you’re doing something right. Your privacy settings are working if they can’t distinguish between you and a bot.
It’s an umbrella term and should really say “eventually, all accounts” as they just want you to break your secure privacy settings and let them harvest your data.
I expect “fishy accounts”, in practice, will mean accounts that criticize Israel, Musk, Thiel, etc or support Palestine, Iran, trans people, Lemmy, etc.
It’ll be a vague, catch all for accounts they don’t like the same way conservatives use pedophile. The actual bots, like actual conservative pedophiles, will be protected.
If they can’t tell the difference, then it at least makes sense for Reddit to want to invoke greater scrutiny and some level of ‘anti-bot’ testing. I agree the ID thing sounds like a slippery slope, but at least one can say it has some degree of defensible reason.
Altho personally, I’m thinking it would be better to require a bot account to pass certain dynamic tests that couldn’t be easily programmed against. That said, the rise of AI tools probably makes that something of an arms race…
Nothing to do with “Fishy accounts”. If you’re account is actually deemed a bot account by Reddit, then you’re doing something right. Your privacy settings are working if they can’t distinguish between you and a bot.
It’s an umbrella term and should really say “eventually, all accounts” as they just want you to break your secure privacy settings and let them harvest your data.
I expect “fishy accounts”, in practice, will mean accounts that criticize Israel, Musk, Thiel, etc or support Palestine, Iran, trans people, Lemmy, etc.
It’ll be a vague, catch all for accounts they don’t like the same way conservatives use pedophile. The actual bots, like actual conservative pedophiles, will be protected.
It seems to me like bot behavior should stand out in a bunch of ways that have nothing necessarily to do with privacy.
I mean it that’s their reasoning for wanting your ID/to prove you’re a human life force.
If they can’t tell the difference, fuck 'em.
Obviously they should be able to, but if that’s their reasoning, you’re doing something right.
If they can’t tell the difference, then it at least makes sense for Reddit to want to invoke greater scrutiny and some level of ‘anti-bot’ testing. I agree the ID thing sounds like a slippery slope, but at least one can say it has some degree of defensible reason.
Altho personally, I’m thinking it would be better to require a bot account to pass certain dynamic tests that couldn’t be easily programmed against. That said, the rise of AI tools probably makes that something of an arms race…