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[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

watch this space, australia is the testing ground for new services overseas. If this rolls out effectively in Australia, you can expect it in your own country soon.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Amazing news, honestly. First ray of hope for the future of humanity I’ve seen for as long as I can remember. Ideologically, things have been spiraling out of control with the amount right wing and authoritarian misinformation.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not amazing news if it means rolling out digital ID. say goodbye to anonymity.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world -5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Anonymity on social media is how we got here. You can have anonymity elsewhere on the web. Wanna post on instagram comments? You shouldn’t be anonymous.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So how exactly would you decide which platforms are allowed to be anonymous then?

[–] iii@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Does it align with my opinion. If not, it's misinformation.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Number of users is an obvious example. There are others.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

So what happens when a platform grows and that threshold is reached one day? Force everyone to de-anonymize and potentially reveal sensitive information about themselves or abandon their account?

There's just no good way to force only some to de-anonymize without running into problems.

While I believe in the right to online anonymity, I also don't think that de-anonymization would even work, when I see the same garbage being posted in places that enforce real names. It just doesn't seem like a detractor to those types of people.

Instead, I'd rather want to see harsher punishments for big sites failing to moderate their content. I'd also take a look at these personalized "recommendation" engine and maybe ban them altogether. (Bonus points if it also affects personalized ads.)

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Try to come up with a reasonable process for transitioning between the thresholds or stop pretending you're interested in anything but proving your point.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, but this comment left me completely stunlocked. Why am I supposed to solve the problems to a problem you've created? Since when is trying to prove your point not how an argument works? What even is an argument anymore?

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You can still have your dumb username. We just need to make sure you’re not a child or a Russian. Alternatively, we could also just wait for authoritarianism to make social media completely illegal or unusable. That’s our current track.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 1 points 1 day ago

I see you implying everyone arguing against you is either a dumb moron, a child or russians in your other comments, so it's worthless arguing against your, ironically, authoritarianism-fueled idea.

Bye.

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So a government issued id linked to whatever your watching is going to fix this problem?

Because that's the only way to implement this

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes, probably. We’d get rid of the 90% of content that’s just Chinese and Russian trolls, for starters. It’ll also lower the temperature of discussions.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Agreed. I've grown up with the development of the WWW and where we are today is completely different than where we used to be in the 90s and 2000s. The consolidation, universal access and the profit maximization via rage farming has put societies globally in an unprecedentedly precarious position. This isn't your uncle's Internet anymore. It's a hyper-personalized engagement-maximizing corporate experience for all but a small fraction of people who were lucky enough to escape it. Anyone feeling I'm overreacting should spend an hour with their old account on Facebook.