On the one hand, I understand the inherent limitations of pseudonymous social media and why a corporation and even end users might benefit from authoritative user identification.

On the other hand, oh hell no.

If World ID becomes one of Reddit’s third-party providers, it would be good news for Tools for Humanity, which was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.

What the actual fuck.

Seriously how on Earth is that supposed to work?

Lemmy gonna get crowded soon

So this guy helps create a technology that turns bots up to 11 and then he turns around to sell us a privacy invasive solution to the problem he created? What a fucking asshole.

They can scan these nuts

Lmao No

scan your eyes to use social media? don't mind if I DONT lol

I would not ponder this orb

Create a problem

Sell the solution

They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching.

Who TF is actually going to want to use these platforms bad enough to do this shit?

Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.

Reddit is mainly just very poorly disguised government surveillance and AI generated advertisement, and none of the content is even enjoyable or enticing. Who TF is their target audience?

Drink verification can to continue.

they already have too much info from their users, same as facebook... years ago things like this were heavily rejected (like PIPA act when the SOPA almost happened)

I really hope this drives a ton of users to Lemmy. I love this platform but it sadly really feels like a 20% Reddit :/

Scan your biounique eyeball to provide ID whilst retaining your anonymity???

Anonymity and the ability for someone else to prove it was me are nearly opposites.

I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you post that.

Pondering my deleting my reddit account again

Thanks Reddit for giving me yet another reason not to go back

...this isn't satire?

This will do it. It will finally kill reddit.

Adam ruined reddit.

(Go with me on the joke, reddit was ruined long long time ago. Adam did an endorsement of Orb a few weeks back, got called out and did an apology.)

I'M STILL BLAMING CONOVER THO

I mean, come on. We shit on redditors, but even redditors won't stand for getting their iris's scanned just to use the site..

Lol. The bots to humans ratio will get even bigger if that happens.

According to two people familiar with the matter, World ID could soon become a way for Reddit users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous on the platform.

Reddit knowing who I am isn't okay though. Who tf trusts them?

These companies are really seeing how far they can get away with shit. It's mind blowing.

That is perhaps the only orb I care not to ponder.

I think the appropriate headline should be:

"Reddit in talks to embrace iris-scanning Orb to verify users created by man alleged by his own sister to have molested her throughout her childhood beginning at age 3."

I hope they do this, it'd make the APIopolypse look like a practice run.