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> I do feel a sense of achievement. We knew the photograph with Jack Nicholson in [it]. We knew that there was an unknown man, but we didn't know who he was.

Of course, this skips over the fact that it was actually a reddit poster who discovered the person, and the professor didn't believe him.

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Actually no. In the audio file they discuss this. The redditor thought it was a misidentification and did not believe it, while the person researching it further did believe that was a good identification.

Yes, Connor discounted it, said it wasn't a match. It took looking at photos of Casani to nail it down and actually it was the injuries reported in his RAF file that confirmed it.

Which should be the default mode of operation with anything you read on Reddit these days.

I mean, discounting what Reddit has become in 2025, would you trust any anonymous post that said “I ran it through my facial recognition database and got a match from over 100 years ago”

It’s not true until it’s verified

Where else can one reliably post and communicate on the internet today then?

Some place not run by a publisher with huge Chinese backing and millions of eyeballs? Like Fediverse, maybe? Fosstodon would be good for a lot of folks here. Just remember to not use the public timeline unless you're fine with 4chan levels of content, even on moderated stuff like fosstodon.

Good luck in this brave new world

Just because it can't be done or doesn't happen on reddit doesn't mean that it can be done or happens elsewhere.

> Which should be the default mode of operation with anything you read on Reddit these days.

Wide variance depending on subreddit - though, apart from the ferociously moderated exceptions, the large ones are all hopeless.

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