First they came for the new accounts but I did not speak out because I did not have a new account…
Reddit hasn’t cared about bots for years. They just want your ID.
This isn’t an ID push (yet). Seems more like a vapid announcement to appease the corpos paying them for ads.
Nothing to do with “Fishy accounts”. If you’re account is actually deemed a bot account by Reddit, then you’re doing something right. Your privacy settings are working if they can’t distinguish between you and a bot.
It’s an umbrella term and should really say “eventually, all accounts” as they just want you to break your secure privacy settings and let them harvest your data.
I expect “fishy accounts”, in practice, will mean accounts that criticize Israel, Musk, Thiel, etc or support Palestine, Iran, trans people, Lemmy, etc.
It’ll be a vague, catch all for accounts they don’t like the same way conservatives use pedophile. The actual bots, like actual conservative pedophiles, will be protected.
So glad I found Lemmy. Kindof sad to see the direction Reddit is headed, but I think it was inevitable once profits became the driving force.
Oh, and Fuck Spez! That is all.
There on Reddit that you don’t have here. Here we have entire instances of bots like Mastodon.uno
