A lot less than 20% when it comes to specific subjects. The great thing about reddit was finding communities around just about every topic or hobby. If 100 people had a passion for something they could meet on Reddit and still have a comfy, somewhat active sub reddit.

On Lemmy you've got generic technology, generic news, generic videogames, generic pics, and almost everything else doesn't get enough traction to keep living. It's a basic population problem, the fraction of people knowing about Lemmy is just not enough to gather around shared stuff. Even those that do use Lemmy are probably not aware of every community attempt that could interest them.

I still see more communities being abandoned than new ones appearing.

Wow who's your butthole guy?

Wtf is this sorcery your post says "1." but when I reply its "37."

Glad i left Reddit a while back

It's a solution to a problem Lemmy will soon have in that case.

Which is bots.

Lemmy isn't flooded with bots and astroturfing because it's essentially too small to matter. The audience is something like < 0.001% that of reddit.

Once it grows the problem comes here as well, and we have no answers for it.

It's a shitty situation for the internet as a whole, and the only solution is verifying humans. And corporations CANNOT be trusted with that kind of access/power

Wayyyyyy less than 20%.

Even removing, incredibly liberal, bot percentages from reddit Lemmy is still < 0.001% of the audience

Well said!!

Scan your biounique eyeball to provide ID whilst retaining your anonymity???

Anonymity and the ability for someone else to prove it was me are nearly opposites.

FUCK no.

Sure...as if they get my bio-data. That company will at best get a 1-way salted hash.

I mean, I don't trust OpenAI or Reddit either but these two things are as mutually exclusive as they seem.

With zero-knowledge principles you could maintain anonymity while still verifying identity. Doesn't mean that's what big tech is doing or is gonna do, but also doesn't mean it's physically unreal or anything either. We could build a not shitty system.

I thought this was an onion article or something

Biounique id is an advertiser's wet dream and I don't think it's theoretically possible to prevent it from being exploited for profiling by Google. If the hashed encrypted token retains the uniqueness then it points to you as an individual across time, devices and location changes. There is no escaping this ID. You can't change it, you can't get a new one.

Google and other multinational corporations WILL know where you live and can figure out all your personal characteristics with a little time. Your anonymity is gone forever.

Sam Altman saw the film Minority Report in which iris scanners on holographic billboards trigger the advertisements to address you by name, hampeting the escape of the central character who was being set up, and thought "Cool, let's make this. I'm going to be rich! The other dystopian aspects of the film are fiction, but this one I can make real."

Identity does not need to be verified by a private company's scan of someone's eyeballs.

Note: Make the UX on Lemmy even worse to keep the Redditors out!

Facial recognition in smartphones is a very different thing from basically every point of view. Are you sure you don't know a single person using an iPhone? Chances are they'll be using FaceID to unlock their phone.

I don't think I know a single person NOT using biometrics to unlock their smartphone.

Edit: I'm sure there at least 3 people on Lemmy that don't use biometrics but that doesn't change anything I'm pretty sure

Probably still do quite a lot. I still have my account there in case there are calls to promote the fediverse.

They left Digg posts alone for now though. I know it's another boiling pot, dont have to remind me.

I read about this a few years ago, and even saw them in a mall in Western EU.

The whole thing is just bio-data mining, and they started by preying on some poor regions in Africa

Drink verification can to continue.

What you describe is the main reason that's stopping me from 100% leaving Reddit. There isn't enough variety and there isn't enough activity in communities that isn't in the few popular ones. At the moment it feels like +80% of current users fit into a specific demographic.