> centive to protect the account and "build up a history". My Reddit account is 13+ years old, and I don't want to sign up on the "wrong instance" of Lemmy/Kbin.
This is scary. With that much public information all of your accounts are surely pwned and you'll be a prime target for AI based scam attacks. It's probably enough data to build an AI profile that'll be more real than real YOU to other people and all it takes is couple of API calls/scrapes of your reddit account.
No one should ever have a personal reddit account that is older than a year.
> With that much public information all of your accounts are surely pwned and you'll be a prime target for AI based scam attacks. It's probably enough data to build an AI profile that'll be more real than real YOU to other people and all it takes is couple of API calls/scrapes of your reddit account.
What? So? How does the age of the account imply that they’ve stored anything remotely useful/identifiable?
People have different standards for privacy and different needs and desires for identity. Just because you disagree doesn’t mean that you should push people in a direction baselessly.
> How does the age of the account imply that they’ve stored anything remotely useful/identifiable?
Simple probability. More posts, more data, higher likelyhood of data point leaks. Keeping extensive post history for some vanity points seems like a very high risk/low reward scenario and people should be discouraged from doing this.
Don't forget that it's also possible to find you using the one year's worth of data. Your interests, the way you talk, what you talk about, etc, can always be learned and compared to other users. There's just no way to stop persistent attackers.
> It's probably enough data to build an AI profile that'll be more real than real YOU to other people and all it takes is couple of API calls/scrapes of your reddit account.
Human has been reduced to a series of API calls ever since the rise of smartphones. AI doesn't change that.
This is scary. With that much public information all of your accounts are surely pwned and you'll be a prime target for AI based scam attacks. It's probably enough data to build an AI profile that'll be more real than real YOU to other people and all it takes is couple of API calls/scrapes of your reddit account.
No one should ever have a personal reddit account that is older than a year.