Comment on The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
The end of the anonymous web is nigh. We may not like it, but it’s probably the only way. We used to joke in the 90s about requiring an internet driver’s license before allowing people on Usenet. It might actually be happening.
The end social media maybe. It’s fundamentally broken anyways. They can keep breaking it worse for all I care.
We’re not meant to be ruled by algorithms. It was a stupid idea to listen to antisocial neckbeards selling the world on how they could master sociology with graph theory. The same geniuses who deride soft sciences as not real science.
And it might be a good decision in the dawn of the bot-internet. It forces even bots to be traceable to some real person or getting no access to the mentioned platforms. May be even bot-free platforms
Hypothetically: Lemmy instances where every user has to have physically met an admin and proved that they’re real or something. And they’ll only federate to other instances following the same rules.
It’ll almost be like the early 90s dialup BBS small communities, with FIDOnet ;)
Cherry@piefed.social 6 hours ago
TBF in recent years there’s little of it worth visiting.