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Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
The internet is dead, or at least heavily necrotic, by this point. Aside from previously trusted sources that haven’t succumbed to the AI-generation hellscape, and even those trusted things are now so ad heavy that it feels like my back would break without my ad blocker on.
Lemmy and the fediverse I feel are better suited to absorb the negative effects of all that than any of the current monoliths.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Lemmy and similar are not inherently more resistant to this. Actually, they are probably less resistant from a technical standpoint, since there is virtually no barrier to creating an account. I didn’t even need an email address to sign up, let alone a phone number like the corporate sites require nowadays (not sure about Reddit, but Google, Facebook, and Twitter all require phone verification to register last I checked).
I fear that we are not ready for the wave of spam that will come as soon as the fediverse becomes mainstream.
On a more fundamental level, I don’t know how to reconcile the competing goals of accountability and privacy.
Realistically, there is no way to distinguish AI comments from human comments. Not in any way that wouldn’t become obsolete the day after it was implemented.
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Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 months ago
As far as I know you still don’t actually need an email address to create a reddit account. They try to make users think it’s compulsory but there are workarounds during sign up.
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Last time I signed up (a few years ago) you could just enter whatever email you wanted and never bother to verify it. It’s only a problem if you forget your password
Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 months ago
You don’t even have to enter an email address. Just click next and you skip straight to username/password confirmation.