Make it trivial for users to move their accounts between instances, and very hard for instance admins to block. Ideally it would be possible to migrate an account even after an instance shuta down, but that is probably impractical to implement.

We also need to consider how to mitigate the threat to communities (I think that’s the term. Lemmy’s equivalent of subreddits). If big communities are tied to specific servers then we have the same issue with server admin power.

But those aren’t examples of using voice recognition for authentication. In all of those cases if someone else walked up to the person using the thing and shouted the right command, we don’t expect the system doing the voice recognition to ignore it because the wrong person said it.

The article says 256x256. So yeah, painfully low res