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Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Thanks to Popcrave https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1691852136236327316?s=46&t=lcH0dp9biwkMEBKsRQeVeQ

Who here is going to put their ID and photo on X/Twitter

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

90s: stay anonymous, be careful with strangers, don't give up any more info than you have to. The internet can be a dangerous place. Also, supervise your kids and have them ask permission to go online.

2010s-2020s: livestream your life 24/7, use real names and emails everywhere when signing up for bullshit, hand your kid a phone and let them go buck wild as well.

How did we stray like this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't do this. Delete your Xitter account and use Mastodon instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter aside, if any website or app ever asks this of you, please nope the fuck out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess it only occasionally makes sense for government web sites and banks. X might have ambitions to become a bank, so in that sense it might make sense.

So another piece of advice: if twitter ever asks you if you want to start using it for banking, nope the fuck out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You Americans should get to this century and start performing digital strong authentications like the rest of us. Sending picture of your ID to anyone is insane :)

How we do it here in Finland is that there are digital identity providers which use bank/mobile carrier to identify you. They then use MFA when identifying you. Any service can use these services to do strong authentication for you. And they don't cost anything for the customer, and is really cheap for the company who wants to identify you. It is also build into the law that you must identify people using these, to avoid identity theft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We're still trying to decide if slavery was wrong give us some time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We’re going to find out in a few years that some congressman’s son or a defense contractor or whatever founded all these “ID verify” systems that are worse than nothing. State IDs will be useless in a few years after the 500th data breach and kids will be j/o to porn their ancestors couldn’t even imagine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Removed as a protest against the community's support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it's mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it won't be mandatory, unfortunately. Would've loved to see another fediverse mass migration

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The eternal september moment for the fediverse is very much coming

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What makes you think we're not already there?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once prominent celebrities and more news agencies start to come (and they will, the BBC is a sign of that) the culture will shift faster than you really realize. There is still an insular culture around the fediverse that tends to be a big barrier around entry for "normies" right now. Going on a mastodon instance as a new user with limited technical knowledge can be quite jarring especially if you step out of line of what it seen as culturally fitting for the fediverse

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

The Big Black Cock is a sign of all that? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

So Green Day want us to wake them up when Usenet is no longer experiencing an influx of new users? 🤨

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

where did this image come from?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

LOL, literally speedrunning Twitter's bankruptcy.