Psuedo-anonymity like usernames breeds assholes (See: Basically every comment section/reddit/forum.) but actual anonymity breeds super assholes (See: Basically every chan.)
So true it’s sad. I have to block people daily
Every last chan? Every?
Facebook is worse
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That’s totally true, but people just seem to do it less on the whole
Come on, there’s no need to use ableist language like that.
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My pronouns are aahel/aahelim.
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Ahh yes the only possibilities in life are two extremes and nothing else. Thank you for your poignant insight.
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Just like how ground beef only comes in two forms, completely raw and cooked into carbon.
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lol opsec
get over yourself.
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I personally don’t see the value. If I’d want to talk about stuff, I don’t want my username associated with, maybe
- the internet is not the right place to have this discussion or
- I wouldn’t want it associated to my account by any means, so would most likely create a burner account.
I also wonder if it wouldn’t make moderation harder?
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I think there is a misunderstanding here. I didn’t say that there is no value in discussing commonly suppressed or censored topics on the internet. I said that I would not want them associated with my regular account, which I believe is a good practice, especially if discussing said things could put you at risk.
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With better meta moderation tools, like slashdot used to have, it would be good
But anonymous posting works already, you did it using a brand new account to post this post.
Seconded. Plus it should be something that is up to each community to decide whether to allow or not. Maybe up to individual users/clients as well
I like the thought of seeing posts by “Anonymous Coward” again.Soylentnews still runs slashcode! sadly they turned off AC
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This is exactly how I feel.
I HATE it when people respond to the commenter and not the comment.
It already is? Just create an anonymous account.
Technically psuedonymous but gets the job done
Anonymity generally just gives people a pass to be even bigger assholes. I’m good.
Yeah that’s what people really want to do. They want to feel more at home like they’re on Reddit so yeah, let them be bigger assholes and get away with it.
this place is anonymous, just make a burner account
I think it would be kind of like colliding Reddit and 4chan.
ew…
Wouldn’t mind, as long as there’s a (default on?) setting to hide anon posts and comments.
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You could learn from this person, since all your other responses are adversarial.
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Can’t you hide new accounts or just show they’re new?
It would be basically an imageboard like 4chan. Those have their advantages and disadvantages. I think it should be a thing in principle but communities should be allowed to say they don’t want anonymous posts.
How big the total lemmy userbase? We’re already anonymous.
pseudonymous, not anonymous, we still know which things were posted by the same person (or rarely people sharing an account) and if someone discovers someone’s IRL identity they know who posted all things that Lemmy user posted
@[email protected] are you just asking a lot of questions to keep us busy? Or are you reading this, just not commenting (yet)?
How would blocking / muting work? I imagine anonymous posts to be, on average, worse that even burner-account posts.
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Wouldn’t say lemmy but may me a specific community or instance can allow this.
