That's a good point. Out of all the social networks, Reddit has been the least interested in getting your personal identification.

Most other social networks explicitly require you to provide a phone number, or implicitly require you to register from your home's IP address, or sometimes both.

Hmm funny how Sam Altman is one of the few people responsible for creating that problem and now he's selling the solution to it

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."

Your bank doesn't even need to know who you are.

On a related note, Bank of America, if you're reading this, my name is
floop @lemmy.dbzer0.com, and I would like to withdraw all the money from my account. Nonsequential bills please!

He’s a modern day arms dealer.

It's actually low-key brilliant. Start a gold rush, when you realize the gold isn't actually there, pivot to selling shovels and keep hyping the gold rush. Fools and their money are soon parted, and there seem to be an endless supply of them.

It works: You can tell the real humans because they'll be the only ones unwilling to do this invasive bullshit. The bots will just come up with something fake to scan and carry on as they always have.

The one Orb you don't ponder.

This worldcoin? Yeah, it’s looking real good right now…

I’m 100% for technological advancement and even AI.

They will have to rip my fucking eyes out before I let them scan them with this thing.

Glad I left that shithole.

I'll give you $1 per eyeball

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?

Be well Simon Phoenix

Your iris/fingerprint scanner is only secure until someone is willing to rip out an eyeball/finger.

Ahh so they'll use this to eliminate bots and multi-account trolls right?

right??????!!?!?

No human needs this, this is the march of the companies against humanity.

Will they though? Facebook has already created undisclosed bot accounts themselves before. A Platform where real users and such bots are indistinguishable (for the user) sounds like a social media corpos and authoritarian governments wet dream to me. Also reminds me of the attempts to disguise ads as natural content.

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

Whatcha mean, they obviously need to count the wrinkles on your dirty balloon knot.

The bot problem has been around since before Sam Altman was old enough to legally drink. For example in the early days the founders of Reddit were running bots to make the site look wayyy busier than it actually was in order to attract new users.

He's a convenient bogey-man, and a huge asshole, but he's the not the source of this problem.