The only thing I miss from reddit is my favorite small niche subs.

Invisible bicycles.

Where people take photos of people on bicycles and Photoshop out the bicycle. You can request or do the edits.

Forbiddensnacks

Photos of stuff that looks like delicious food but is not food.

There was another with short videos of animals in sync. Like chickens or dogs .

Oh and another that was photos of cats, sitting on clear glass. The photos were from the underside.

There was another photoshop battle one. Where there was a prompt and then everyone would submit a photoshopped mash of the prompt.

But I bet AI has ruined that one.

What is this. People posted pictures of stuff that the community tried to figure out what it was

Retro futurism. Just posts about that.

I think I miss forbidden snacks the most.

Im also someone with a million hobbies. So I really miss those. Some are here too. Bigger ones like 3d printing and photography but not stained glass. Not sure if there is one for Blender. I should check.

Subs for specific games like remedy games, zelda. Animal crossing.

Honestly I'm from the time where there used to be forums for these things and I liked forums just fine.

I get that smaller population means less niche communities.

I'm okay with it. But I will be honest and say I miss my niche indie subs. I hate that it's been ruined. And that it's dead.

Facebook groups still exist though and many are acceptable. Especially for the indie games and hobbies.

Spez (Reddit CEO) just put out an announcemen talking about how they'll verify humans via a new rectal probe in collaboration with Meta AI that 3D scans your log factory.

Funny how this ties nicely into Meta’s lobbying for age verification and how it’s suddenly a conversation we keep seeing crop up. The pattern recognition tools in my brain see nothing but constant red flags these days.

They flooded the web with bots, advertisers are backing out because of it, and now both Spez and Zuck are panicking.

Psst ,we humans left reddit in 2023

I think people should experience smaller communities, they are often much higher quality in terms of the actual social interactions (though, we're starting to get our share of trolls and toxic people).

5 more users. I assume that's the number of users still stupid enough to still be using reddit. I profoundly apologize to the stupid community who are not using reddit.

Ooh, yay! I just swung over myself after my eighth account permaban (with no link to alleged offending comment) within 24 hours of posting about how one of the admins is in regular contact with Ghislaine Maxwell while she's in prison🤔

Everyone other website:

There are so many ways to do human verification that have worked for years. The biggest reason bots are plaguing the internet is because these corpos don't really try anymore. There's literally no reason to do face scans or IDs other than to unanonymize people and take their data.

I was waiting for this move, it was the final straw. now I'm here, happily writing a comment in the fediverse through blorp (foss).

So what's will happen to their existing bot accounts? Erase 75% of their current users?

It's really weird to me how literally anything they say or do is immediately interpreted in the worst possible way here, on Lemmy.

Let's get real for a second.

Is there a bot problem on the Internet in general? That's a resounding "yes".

Do we want to do something about it?

According to OP - no, not at all.

I mean, if OP considers malicious everything that Spez listed, the only remaining course of action is inaction and hoping for the best.

Without bots their most popular text based subs like AITAH or TwoHotTakes would be empty.

And none of them will know about fediverse girl

They should start with all the commenters in the thread praising the Spez.

While the corpos are stomping on their own feet, it turns out that doing nothing (i.e. just existing) is the best strategy to apply.

Now perhaps we’ll get more (hopefully) good folks onto Lemmy. Sure, Digg may get some too, but I’m not sure of its long-term privacy respectfulness - being subject to the US laws and all that.

I wonder if we will actually ever see the true numbers, I have a feeling they will realize that SOOOOOOOOOOO many of the users are bots and be forced to pull a shwitter.

We will see what happens, but I won't hold my breath for actual transparency.

Spez is a spaz that can't spell. Fuck posting anything CEOs say they all suck, take their voice.