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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Reddit is making verifying emails to post semi-mandatory. It will be harder to use throwaway accounts for privacy on reddit and might cause a small privacy migration away from reddit. (midwest.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Gnotek@midwest.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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We might be able to capitalize on this somehow to move users to the fediverse?

Hi mods,

This afternoon we will be releasing a couple of improvements to Automoderator.

First, there is now a verified email attribute available. This means that you can check if the redditor submitting content to your community has a verified email associated with their account. Think of it as an automated way of looking at their trophy case to see if they have the “Verified Email” trophy.

Mods use account age & karma restrictions in an effort to stop low effort participation but these often catch out well intentioned redditors. We hope that by exposing if a redditor has a verified email to automod you’ll be able to remove some of these karma restrictions and have a more effective way at identifying bad-intentioned redditors.

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[–] lobsterasteroid@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

/r/Linux has an official policy of removing and scrubbing comments from non-verified accounts and threatens users with possible "action" if they keep commenting without verifying their email.

The threatening message the automod sends now told me to switch to Lemmy if i don't like it, so I did.

I can totally understand how not requiring email verification enables harrassment etc, it's just odd because reddit has literally always been carefully structured to enable and promote harrassment. It's why their user block feature stops you from seeing content by users you've blocked, but it doesn't stop them from seeing and interacting with you.

I started using non-verified accounts on reddit precisely because of how inherently unsafe the platform is by design.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whoa let us see a screencap of that.

[–] lobsterasteroid@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lol here you go https://imgur.com/a/QelqulU

[–] Zalamander@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Here's the URL for ease: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/wiki/mod_faq/mod_responses_on_major_events/how-to-use-reddit#wiki_consider_reddit_alternatives

[–] Windows97@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

the automod sends now told me to switch to Lemmy if i don’t like it, so I did

lmao nice

[–] Yujiri@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

The threatening message the automod sends now told me to switch to Lemmy if i don’t like it, so I did.

🤣 that's awesome! We need to get all the centralized platforms to say that :D