I tried this recently with my name and it couldn't find anything. Using RNG usernames may be the play because they're so generic :P

If I was still posting on Reddit, shit like this would immediately prompt me to delete all my stuff

The "social credit score" in China was blown out of proportion too. It probably changed since I last looked into it. But when that shit was all over American media it was literally the equivalent of a background check or credit score in the US. Work history, loan and credit history, etc.

Like, it's funny how we can have essentially the same exact thing but only critize China's version of it. Make it scary by adding "social" to the name. People ate that shit up.

Edit: to be clear I think both should be critized. Especially related to criminal history bias on race. But we spend more time talking about the Chinese version that doesn't actually effect anyone's lives in the US.

And Black Mirror was before that with the idea.

Omg, you are such a Monica.

Human personalities can be clustered into which member of the cast of Friends they most resemble.

Fortunately, Friends is so brilliantly written that they managed to capture the entire spectrum of human diversity.

(this is snark. I am totally a Chandler.)

I was away from Reddit for over two years, and then one of my old accounts was compromised by some pornographer.

I didn’t like that, so I got the account back. Poked around for a little bit after that.

I got banned from /r/worldnews on my first comment there for celebrating the beating of that douche-nozzle known as “Big Balls.”

Fuck em. Didn’t dispute anything, just immediately done posting there again. Reddit is unrecognizable vs where it was in June 2023. I’m pretty sure half the participants are AI; and they’re using AI based personas to drive up their metrics and subsequently their stock price.

https://lemmynsfw.com/c/boobs

https://lemmynsfw.com/ exists, so..

(considering amazon reviews are completely dogshit and mostly bought off I'd imagine not very)

Honestly the fediverse is already a bit of a privacy nightmare, and people refuse to take it seriously. Our version of this horror will include your comments and voting activity and likely a bunch of other telemetry which isn't public on reddit. Oh and it won't just be a single "official" AI agent, it will be dozens of them from every corporate or government which wants to build a user database and keep it around forever.

We could bake real privacy protection into our fediverse apps, but the admins and devs seem to have completely punted on this.

Unfortunately, you know it will. If it can be done, someone will do it.

It would be literally about 3 hours of coding for someone to make one of those, and another few days to feed the fediverse into it.

Old Reddit is the only reason why I visit it sporadically. Combined with RES, I still have the same basic keybindings to browse I had multiple years ago. The new UI of Reddit is a waste of space.

I did, but the key difference is that it didn’t make an evaluation for you. It just gave you a collection of facts with some hard-coded things to look out for.

The new thing is way worse. It’s just skipping the facts part entirely.