This presents one of two possibilities:
A) The anonymous mode is still tied to an account, and so instances could choose to just not show accounts as anonymous, or users could just dig through modlog.
B) The anonymous mode isn’t tied to an account, making effective moderation nigh impossible, and spam very easy.
Neither of these are good.
Psuedo-anonymity like usernames breeds assholes (See: Basically every comment section/reddit/forum.) but actual anonymity breeds super assholes (See: Basically every chan.)
Every last chan? Every?
So true it’s sad. I have to block people daily
Facebook is worse
Yeah much better to have your account your real name plus birthday plus social security number.
Ahh yes the only possibilities in life are two extremes and nothing else. Thank you for your poignant insight.
It is almost like being anonymous is inherently binary.
Just like how ground beef only comes in two forms, completely raw and cooked into carbon.
Please explain to me your idea of being semi anonymous. Then define the term opsec.
lol opsec
get over yourself.
Your lack of answers speaks volumes. 🤡
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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.
It’s like you didn’t read his comment.
My pronouns are aahel/aahelim.
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
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?
Sounds like you have nothing to fear. Soon you’ll have nothing to say. Dumbest comment of the year “the Internet is not the right place to have this discussion”
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.
I apologize for the misunderstanding and thank you for spending the time further explaining your thoughts.
Actually, I don’t usually even notice usernames/names around here, with rare exceptions (frequent commentators whose names are so frequently displayed that I can’t help but remember other posts). Lemmy is more content-oriented than person-oriented (and that should always be desirable). I’m not sure about you all: to me, it doesn’t even matter who posted something, it only matters what is posted.
Therefore, it shouldn’t matter if their nickname is “Anonymous2666”, “following_the_hurried_rabbit”, “Alice (they/them)” or KYC’d/Facebook’d real profiles such as “Alice Doe Merrymary Hogwarts, Wendy’s Local Franchise Manager and Independent Romance/Fiction Writer from 27 Lots-Of-Honking-Flying-Cars Ave, Midtown Austin, TX”: it’s their content what matters the most.
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
this place is anonymous, just make a burner account
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.
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.
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.
Wow an actual thoughtful solution. Well played.
You could learn from this person, since all your other responses are adversarial.
Lol. God’s plan.
Can’t you hide new accounts or just show they’re new?
How would blocking / muting work? I imagine anonymous posts to be, on average, worse that even burner-account 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
@Hayley566@lemmyusa.com are you just asking a lot of questions to keep us busy? Or are you reading this, just not commenting (yet)?
I’d be in favor of it. With a federated platform it’s impossible to keep someone from spinning up per-interaction accounts so we essentially need to deal with the costs of allowing anonymity anyway. It could be implemented in such a way that your host instance can connect the interaction with an account if there was some advantage to that but banning an account created to post something offensive and a moderator removing an anonymous post that’s offensive are pretty much the same action - and if a particular account was egregiously abusive there are technical ways we could allow the host instance to ban the user without compromising anonymity for other unbanned anonymous posts.
Oh, anonymous DMs should be absolutely disallowed. That’d just be an open invitation to dick pic spamming but, as nearly any open woman on the internet will tell you dick pic spamming is a constant issue.
Basically, it really wouldn’t make any kind of abuse easier and even if it was significantly abused to bypass needing to do account sign-ups for trolling there are pretty simple technical solutions to fix it.
