Soon Reddit users need to prove that they are human using ID verification.

[freevolt24@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft The number sites that have audacity to ask for ID like nothing is too high. I don't even want to sign in, usually.

[catzilla@toot.cat]

@nixCraft @SnowyCA I deleted my reddit account like 8 years ago and it keeps reassuring me that was a good decision

God that is going to backfire, so many trolls that thrive because they’re anonymous

[progenitus@det.social]

@nixCraft
No problem with Passkeys. If that would be the only thing that would be fine.
(As long it does not exclude certain people for accessibility or other reasons)

[nixcraft@mastodon.social]

hear me out: i starting to feel like all this OS, social media age/ID & KYC verification push because people are speaking out against world governments & the wealthy brats

They want to create fear. if you talk against them they can send the police or their supporters to your home because they know exactly who you are. This has nothing to do with kids. If it did, many AI apps would have been shut down a long time ago when they started 'undressing' women and deepfakes. Yet those apps are online

[snowyca@social.vivaldi.net]

@nixCraft

[omar@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@nixCraft

But no matter what, those bastards do their things.

They don't even try to fake it with GenAI, deepfake, no, just pure blatant lies with two prominent fingers at your face.

This is a strange way to go fascism, they still, somehow, ask for permission (laws) or justification.

Should we see the good side and telling ourselves that we might still be able to change something?

[hundredlottrader@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft Fraud is rampant, there is the KYC camp which are typically businesses that have some reason to need to verify you are not exfiltrating their systems, and then there is the tinfoil hat security crowd (mostly us) that sees boogiemen everywhere (and are often right, often wrong.

These two are seemingly at odds, but in reality what it suggests is that there are distinct identity domains that we need to solve for - public and private, and we haven't.

We need zkp public identity yesterday

[paulywill@mstdn.ca]

@nixCraft Obstacles
create opportunity…we don’t *need* any state controlled propaganda/monitoring tools. The powers to be always forget why the cools kids went to these platforms in the first place.

[distrowatch@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft Pretty much, this is what privacy advocates have been saying for decades. There is no free speech without the option for anonymous speech.

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@omar @nixCraft I leave...