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Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W (cybernews.com)
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[–] [S] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Considering the amount of bots and trolls everywhere I can see a certain appeal on an app that requires an id verification to be honest.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    But if they're doing it half-assed as most services (send photo of passport, take a selfie), it won't be a challenge for AI to generate random IDs and a matching avatar for photo/video verification. The only way this could work is if they'd verify your ID by reading the NFC chip inside the passport or ID card.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 6 months ago

    True. I'd be up for that, but honestly more for a real social network for friends and family, like Facebook once was, than for a debate forum like Twitter. That demand could maybe endure that it would remain a friends only network..

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    There needs to be high-quality discussion about how to make sure that users of social media platforms are humans instead of bots, but it needs to be a discussion happening in the open and not behind closed doors.

    Right now, the approach is to not talk about it and assume that verification can only happen via photo. It could also be done in different ways, such as using a QR code that you get at a supermarket; or by only allowing 1 user account per physical device (which would make bot accounts expensive). There's lots of possible ways and none of them are discussed.

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