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Reddit and FaceID Verification
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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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I (mildly) am concerned about that also...but bear in mind...the difference between Lemmy and Reddit is you can..defederate...from known bad instances. If Lemmy goes in that direction - and we undertake the idea I mentioned here - https://lemmy.world/post/44633911/22828600
then we can basically recreate a blacklist / whitelist (ala AdBlock). Instance-wide crawlers can still scrape public data, but that's an ActivityPub protocol constraint, not a Lemmy failure.
Instance crawling with bots? Sorry, no soup for you.
Spam bots on bad instances? Blocked from your feed.
Peak "fine, I'll do it myself" energy? Yes. But if you're reading this, you're 1) part of the resistance (lol) and (2) already here, so ...