Soon Reddit users need to prove that they are human using ID verification. Your site is already garbage and I am not giving you any ID.

https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/1s3ezrc/humans_welcome_bots_must_wear_name_tags/

Mastdon and Fedi seems to doing fine without any ID.

hear me out: i starting to feel like all this OS, social media age/ID & KYC verification push because people are speaking out against world governments & the wealthy brats

They want to create fear. if you talk against them they can send the police or their supporters to your home because they know exactly who you are. This has nothing to do with kids. If it did, many AI apps would have been shut down a long time ago when they started 'undressing' women and deepfakes. Yet those apps are online

there is some truth to the issues with bots or AI based spam, but then again, companies are firing competent software devs/IT staff & still expecting everything to work perfectly

the solution to these AI bots is regulation. they've 3/4 companies that all these bottom feeders use for spamming via API. It isn't that hard to fix the problem but governments are too busy with throwing dirt at each other these days & for profit social media want to tag everyone with ID so they can market you better

@nixCraft
I have been involved in a very few real crises.
The first thing that management did was reach down through levels to get to the cognizant engineer and bring that person into a corner office.
They want the straight shit...they want it now....
They want "how"..."why"...and "who"...
They don't want "I think".

Sometimes crises happen even after substantially controlled development and testing.
When the crisis or issue comes, having been through that process enables you to know the nature of the problem and what can / needs to be done to address it.

So...
Who do you call?
How do you know even where to start?