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On reddit?
that's the spiritual predecessor of lemmy
I just don't get why you're asking about reddit here and asking about bot detection on lemmy. Are you actually worried that you don't know whether you're talking to a bot on lemmy and not reddit? It's just confusing to me.
Because on lemmy we can observe it, on reddit we can't. There's a huge ¥ incentive for reddit to operate bots but not for lemmy in its current state.
Why can't we observe it on lemmy?
The other way round. We can observe it on lemmy
Oops. Reverse question then. Why can we observe it on lemmy? How can we do that? Can't bots operate web browsers? How would they be detectable?
Because we control lemmy. Any server admin can request PII from the users in order to use site. We can't control anything on reddit. Even if reddit was asking for PII like facebook, we, the people, couldn't know if all of them are actually real. It's shift of trust from reddit to many local server admins
are there any lemmy instances that verify PII?
I highly doubt it, one that required PII to sign up would be very unlikely to have many users (especially in the current climate, so to speak).
And from the admin side, that sounds like a nightmare to deal with.
have you heard of online id verification services run by some governments
linkedin uses them to verify users identities
what do you think of them?
I can't say that I've heard of them, no. I don't have any need (or desire) to do any sort of identity verification within any of my own personal projects (and I have not been involved with anything of the sorts at my workplace). Because of this, I don't have any insight or thoughts I can provide on them unfortunately.
In the context of Fediverse administration (or any service that you run yourself), even with a service that "handles it for you" I still personally wouldn't want to step into any of it.
i have a rule you know
to only talk to the initial reply
but for you i will break my rule as i wasn't paying attention
you are a special case
i've heard about you
you can recite shakespeare
you can write perl
you can do anything
Hmmm... that's nominally better. Which user would respond to a PII request from an admin? I for sure wouldn't. Would you? And servers could run their own bots too, no need to pretend on a browser.
But I do agree that with control of admin and choice who to federate with, it is possible to reduce the number of bots. Eliminating them is not possible, IMO. I'd be surprised if there's any defence against a bot that can control a browser and maybe even go as far as pretend to use a mouse.