You could easily convince me that it was a brilliantly executed honeypot. It’s just too damn poetic.
“It’s a women’s safety app” No it wasn’t. This app was about women’s safety as much as the recent payment processor porn game censorship bullshit was about child safety. This was about slandering men for fun because women love gossip. The app’s name was “Tea.”
Not a single woman who signed up for this app stopped to think, “Here’s a brand new app, just came out, has no track record, no reputation. I don’t know who runs this. I don’t know how they secure their database. I know what they’re asking, they want a picture of my government-issued ID. We’ve spent the last two decades reading news headlines of the pattern “tech company was hacked, 2.2 million users compromised including emails, home addresses and SSNs” on a weekly basis. There hasn’t been a week gone by since Dubya was president that hasn’t happened.”
The women who uploaded pictures of their IDs to some app really had their own safety in mind. Turns out you can short circuit that whole process with hilarious ease if you say things like “women only” and “slander your exes.”
I don’t think I could have constructed a better example as to why all the recent “prove your identity” shit is comprehensively retarded.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
That’s corporate social media/apps in general. Does this thing basically let people list crappy things that happened to them by specific humans?
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s basically a slander app, from what I can tell.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Fair point.
Nima@leminal.space 2 days ago
it seems its an app that helps women flag potential dating candidates as being dangerous or red flags.
there is the potential for doxxing that comes with that, but I can absolutely understand its use and need when not abused in that manner.
i wonder if there’s the potential for a different app with more encryption and a way to prevent doxxing and abuse.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There’s definitely a use case, but there’s an inherent power imbalance to these products that makes sure they will always be misused. The submitters are anonymous, and it’s up to the person being reported on to prove the accusations are false.
Or, they’re supposed to be anonymous.
grue@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How do you warn people about a potential dating candidate being dangerous without doxxing the potential dating candidate? “Hey, watch out for [anonymous person]” doesn’t sound very useful.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Encryption, sure.
Preventing doxxing? I highly doubt it. But hey, it’s women doing it so it’s ok and anyone who criticizes that is an incel.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
You would have to have everyone take a polygraph or something (not that they actually work but a lot of people don’t know that so maybe it would prevent them from lying in the first place). There’s no way to prevent people from lying for whatever reason they have and there’s no way to detect whether or not the thing they have posted is truthful.
The truth is as much benefit as the app may have when used properly the risk of abuse is far too high for it to ever be workable.
If you have a smoke alarm in your house that occasionally explodes and sets your house on fire, but the rest of the time actually works as a fire alarm, then it’s not a useful product, as even if the chance of it exploding was less than 1% it would still eventually blow up your house, whereas if you never installed the alarm there was every possibility your house will never catch fire. So game theory suggests that you are better off without it.
Same with this app, sure it might prevent you experiencing a bad date but there’s every possibility that it will also cause you not to date somebody who’s actually a nice person. You are far better off just making that judgement yourself as you always did. And to be clear given human nature, the likelihood of the “fire alarm exploding” is probably a lot higher than 1%
Nima@leminal.space 2 days ago
it also lists criminal history that might not be disclosed on a dating profile. and other information that might be a red flag.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Regardless of the actual truth of that information.
Nima@leminal.space 2 days ago
indeed. there’s the potential for abuse and doxxing. but I think the app could be done in a safe way. and with much less leakery.
don@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Having no experience with the app whatsoever, I can only guess, and I’d guess that it does as you suggest, though there may be varying levels of specificity involved.