Lemmy feels less anonymous than Reddit, because there are less users and its easier to be remembered. Similar to a small town where everyone knows each other.

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• zorflieg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who are you and how did you get in my sandbox?

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• SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, you fewer less users

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Considering how new anonymity is for the human race, it amazes me how people treat it like a crucial element of life. Civilization mostly lacked it for thousands of years because almost everybody lived in villages or small towns - about half the people in the world still do.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You may not have been anonymous to the people in your immediate community, but you were largely anonymous to the people outside of it, which is something that has been systematically dismantled in various ways through history. Even things as basic as last names are there to make you visible to outsiders.

    From Seeing Like a State, p59:

    The invention of permanent, inherited patronyms was, after the administrative simplification of nature (for example, the forest) and space (for example, land tenure), the last step in establishing the necessary preconditions of modern statecraft. In almost every case it was a state project, designed to allow officials to identify, unambiguously, the majority of its citizens. When successful, it went far to create a legible people. 38 Tax and tithe rolls, property rolls, conscription lists, censuses, and property deeds recognized in law were inconceivable without some means of fixing an individual’s identity and linking him or her to a kin group. Campaigns to assign permanent patronyms have typically taken place, as one might expect, in the context of a state’s exertions to put its fiscal system on a sounder and more lucrative footing.

    IMO the felt anonymity of Reddit, that comes from the fact that hardly anyone cares to remember your username and you don’t directly experience scrutiny, isn’t that useful. What really matters is the potential for someone to look over everything you’ve written (and if they have administrator access, connect that to IP, email, browser fingerprint etc.), and use that information for their own purposes, regardless of their having any connection to or legitimate personal interest in you. In that respect, Lemmy isn’t much better (it kind of can’t be when the premise is publicly posting writing to the internet), but it isn’t worse either.

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have a feeling everyone knows who I am, and those who don’t haven’t blocked me yet.

  it’s fine. I’m not going to apologize for my opinions because that’s somehow worse than defending unpopular opinions.

  I’d rather be the person who owns their hill and dies for it than someone who runs from hill to hill because the group thinks it sucks.

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  • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I mean, you just mentioned that. Of course someone will disagree, but most probably wont bother. I just wanna know, do you exclude gaining a new perspective from this? Because I’m exceedingly strong willed when encountering illogical or otherwise short sighted points. But sometimes folks just show me a new perspective and I am compelled to agree. Doesnt happen often except in tech questions but here we are.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I am completely open to new perspectives and have changed my position based on someone else’s opinions. that’s just how we learn and grow.

      I will not change my opinion because someone said it’s dumb or personally attacks me. if anything, I’ll double down on that hill just to spite them.

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• BlackPenguins@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You look at usernames? I’ve never done that here or on Reddit.

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  • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even without usernames. There is some people i recognize by topic, opinion and the way they express themselves.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even when it’s some asshole who’s always wrong, I try to remind myself that we’re all helping to build a free alternative to corporate social media.

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  • 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it’s difficult to not notice kolanaki

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Blaze is also omnipresent.

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  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Doesn’t help that its the same font size as the comments. Also profile pics, most on reddit don’t use profile pics.

    And also special fonts that sometimes make it stand out, bigger, and different color.

    Like the yittit user @Kolanaki@yiffit.net (I think they moved to another instance after yiffit shut down?)

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  • hightrix@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is the way.

    On reddit, I use RES to hide user names.

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• 4grams@awful.systems ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I call that a feature.

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sometimes it is nice to know oh that person is a jerk or that person is The PUG!

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  a bit more personal and warm, its nice.

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  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think I remember you. But the dash at the end is throwing me off

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      no, I remember you

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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Certain subreddits used to be like this.

  But all my favorites have taken one of two paths:

  • Get algorithmically deprioritized (due to a “bug” as an admin told a mod), and hemorrhage users. The collective ‘intelligence’ of the sub in particular drains; interesting intellectual discussions are gone. One such example: /r/localllama

  • The sub gets huge. Bots repost memes as attention farms. It doesn’t feel like a small town anymore. Deeper discussions drain away in favor of shallow repetition of the same things over and over again. One example of this for me is /r/thelastairbender.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who needs anonymity? I put my real name, address, social security number, and agenda in my profile. Ha ha. you see no agenda because im just a typical earth man with no agenda of course. lol.

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• Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, you sfoogly cucklebog

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• LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, you MSG’d bouillon hatchling

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Os it? I don’t remeber a single user lol

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  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Flying Squid (what happened to that user btw)
    The Picard Maneuver
    Kolanki @ yiffit cm0002 PugJesus ClinicallyDepressesPoochie

    And a lot more I can’t name, but I instantly recognize.

    And there are also some infamous users that I will instantly recognize as trolls, but I’m not gonna turn this thread into negativity.

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    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damnit

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Flying Squid

      He left Lemmy for good when he got into an argument with someone on Discord or something like that about the 'verse. Tbf, he was as much of an ass as he was cool. He’d just go off on people without really understanding what they meant even if his heart was in the right place.

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    • einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      oh there are parts of the cluster again

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  • Monstrosity@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What!? I take that personally. I’m, like, super memorable!

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• dxc@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jokes on you. Post less, remember less.

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• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s why I keep making new accounts every time the last one hits around 1,000 comments. I already recognize quite a few users here who’ve only written around 3,000 comments total - so by that metric, if I’d just kept using my first account, I’d probably be instantly recognizable to a ton of people by now.

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• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Spring

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My, oh societal anachronism.

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aren’t you the one who knows cool animal facts?

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• einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i have the theorie that there are even way fewer users here than people think, at least when it comes to posts not commens…there is a cluster of accounts that kinda feel like they are all run by the same person.

  Feel free to guess what cluster i mean

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  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Every account here is my sockpuppet account except you.

    There are only 2 users here, its just you and me, everyone else are my alts. How did you not realize this?

    /jk

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    • einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i have been suspecting this, so thx i guess for playing social media with me

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• CCMan1701A@startrek.website ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Remember the user that couldn’t 💩 for a week or something?

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    no no no you have it all wrong. he was looking for a way to avoid shitting for 3 days. it was very important to him that he find a way so that his body wouldn’t produce shit during that 3 day period. for some reason.

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  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe the bathrooms were disgusting or something. I mean, I hate using public bathrooms.

    Well looks like they deleted their account. 🤷‍♂️

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• ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I want to be remembered as the succulent meal that sometimes makes good points and funny jokes 🍗🍚

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t know ow anybody here. What you talkin about Wilus?

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• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember you.

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  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How, this account is so fresh.

    I guess I already commented too much 🤷‍♂️

    (I have no life, send help)

    Need some grass-touching

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    • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      you named yourself throwaway, there’s like, only one account that actively posts on a throwaway

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• ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And there is always the village idiot.

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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We are the “I know a spot” guys

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• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I get a weird thing where a VPN connection sometimes doesn’t let me post or respond.

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  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah, its lemmy.world being a dick.

    Hop over to like… just about any other instance

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    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m going to be honest, I hopped over during the r-api thing and I haven’t really explored much, just use the sync app. I can view other instances but I guess I’ll have to figure out how to add them to the default

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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  who do you think you are I am

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