• @yeahiknow3
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    11 days ago

    Amazing news, honestly. First ray of hope for the future of humanity I’ve seen for as long as I can remember. Ideologically, things have been spiraling out of control with the amount right wing and authoritarian misinformation.

    • @thallamabond@lemmy.world
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      1311 days ago

      So a government issued id linked to whatever your watching is going to fix this problem?

      Because that’s the only way to implement this

      • @yeahiknow3
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        11 days ago

        Yes, probably. We’d get rid of the 90% of content that’s just Chinese and Russian trolls, for starters. It’ll also lower the temperature of discussions.

      • @yeahiknow3
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        11 days ago

        Anonymity on social media is how we got here. You can have anonymity elsewhere on the web. Wanna post on instagram comments? You shouldn’t be anonymous.

        • NekuSoul
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          210 days ago

          So how exactly would you decide which platforms are allowed to be anonymous then?

          • Avid Amoeba
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            -110 days ago

            Number of users is an obvious example. There are others.

            • NekuSoul
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              So what happens when a platform grows and that threshold is reached one day? Force everyone to de-anonymize and potentially reveal sensitive information about themselves or abandon their account?

              There’s just no good way to force only some to de-anonymize without running into problems.

              While I believe in the right to online anonymity, I also don’t think that de-anonymization would even work, when I see the same garbage being posted in places that enforce real names. It just doesn’t seem like a detractor to those types of people.

              Instead, I’d rather want to see harsher punishments for big sites failing to moderate their content. I’d also take a look at these personalized “recommendation” engine and maybe ban them altogether. (Bonus points if it also affects personalized ads.)

              • Avid Amoeba
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                10 days ago

                Try to come up with a reasonable process for transitioning between the thresholds or stop pretending you’re interested in anything but proving your point.

                • NekuSoul
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                  210 days ago

                  Sorry, but this comment left me completely stunlocked. Why am I supposed to solve the problems to a problem you’ve created? Since when is trying to prove your point not how an argument works? What even is an argument anymore?

                  • @yeahiknow3
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                    9 days ago

                    You can still have your dumb username. We just need to make sure you’re not a child or a Russian. Alternatively, we could also just wait for authoritarianism to make social media completely illegal or unusable. That’s our current track.

    • Avid Amoeba
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      10 days ago

      Agreed. I’ve grown up with the development of the WWW and where we are today is completely different than where we used to be in the 90s and 2000s. The consolidation, universal access and the profit maximization via rage farming has put societies globally in an unprecedentedly precarious position. This isn’t your uncle’s Internet anymore. It’s a hyper-personalized engagement-maximizing corporate experience for all but a small fraction of people who were lucky enough to escape it. Anyone feeling I’m overreacting should spend an hour with their old account on Facebook.