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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoAllowing to post comments anonymously… sound like a bad idea in the long run, but who know, make me eat my words.
How so? Reddit and Lemmy do just that. There’s nothing tying my username to me, and I’m guessing there’s nothing typing yours to you.
L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
But they don’t. I have never given my email to Reddit or Lemmy. If I did, I’d use a throwaway email.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
There’s more abuse potential with full anonymity vs persistent pseudonyms
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. The difference between 4chan and Reddit is pretty small, and abuse certainly happens on both platforms. It’s pretty easy to swap out a pseudonym (I used to do it every 2-3 years on Reddit), so the difference between that and completely anonymous posts is pretty small.
If you tie accounts to a persistent identity (e.g. Facebook), you have an opportunity to address abuse, but you open yourself up to even more tracking by the service and your government, which I think is worse.
For me, tying online accounts to actual identity (e.g. government ids) is a no-go for me, so the abuse problem needs to be addressed another way. For lemmy, that’s centralized moderation (per community and instance). For a P2P service, that means users opting-in to moderation (e.g. something like a web of trust), which should prevent them from seeing abuse in the first place since they won’t see untrusted content.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I’m sorry, but I sincerely doubt you’ve been on 4chan recently.
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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I don’t see abuse in any of the pictures you posted.
My point isn’t that 4chan and reddit are the same in every sense, just that the difference in abuse (specifically targeted abuse) isn’t all that different between completely anonymous and persistent pseudonymns.