@mia if that happens I’ll just set up another platform somewhere, you can’t police the Fediverse like that.

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real name account here

i don't feel particularly bothered by what anyone thinks about me in real life due to my brain droppings on mastodon, so i suppose i fit the data

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@mia interesting! I go back and forth on whether or not I want to keep my real name out there. But I guess at this point I’ve written and published online for long enough that it may be too late.

@mia It could simply be that, when forced to use their real name, a sizable number of users simply stopped posting.

@mia Interesting article, thanks for posting :)
I always thought anonymity on the internet was very important.
But seeing all the people, who just can't act decent, it might be a good idea to setup something like this: https://pubhubs.net/papers/white_paper_identity_management_PH.pdf

@mia Repressive measure, intended to stifle dissent. In many regimes, open dissent results in your door being kicked-in at 5am by plain-clothes thugs.

@mia in the information age that proceeded electronics, stable psuedonyms were honoured by the name Nom De Plume.
The lot of the poor and women would have been the worse for it being prohibited, not to mention the lot of slaves.
Thinking of George Elliott, Maya Angleou, Current, Ellis and Acton Bell, Boz, George Orwell, Silence Dogood, Clive Hamilton, bell hooks, and Robert Galbraith, to give a few known examples. There were those whom we may dislike too Ayn Rand springs to mind.

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Makes sense to me.

People put all kinds of toxic stuff on LinkedIn and Facebook under their real name: real-name just isn't a big deterrent to people with low impuls-control or people who honestly dgaf what their employer thinks of them.

Whereas I know a lot of (semi-)anonymous accounts that I like enough to follow them over several media (Twitter, masto, YouTube, blogs, etc)

@mia Also, someone's legal name may not reflect their "real identity" (it doesn't for me, though I'm neither trans nor in any danger when outed; it's just not the name anyone except authorities knows me by)

@mia People who have well known names are obliged to use them to attract followers and audience, and they are the most vocal in their opposition to anonymity, because it's something they can't have without giving up their fame.

@mia Real name policies silence many women, many LGBT people, and many Disabled/chronically ill people for a variety of different reasons.

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Being xs4me2 since 1995 I can confirm this from first experience.

@mia this! I'm tattooed mummy. I don't use my real name online but I am accountable as TM

@mia that tracks.

https://ncase.me/trust/

@mia social in internet is weird, trying to build social life by universities network it is fun, like a running doom on thermometer.

PC is tool for computing, I not need to register in calculator my name please, what you wanna to calc, for me it is enough in "real" life, I know I am wrong, selfish and must be executed because of my religion/opinion/history, maybe we can just still compute here old boring things. Mastadon fun while render or boiling potatoes, not when to calc segregation

@mia@hcommons.social i am g̶r̶o̶o̶t̶ daswarkeinhuhn

@mia This is a really interesting result. I guess it confirms my expectation, but I'm very glad someone's done the work to check!

@mia @Daojoan
FYI @randahl

@mia that was what Google+ did wrong

@mia Low quality news websites, Amazon reviews, popular forums with rampant astroturfing...All of them benefits from the idea that showing a "real" identity is the ideal.

@mia For "real" read "government authorized".

@mia Anyone who thinks anonymity will make anything friendlier should consider that a self-confessed sex offender (who also publicly admitted to wanting to fuck his own daughter) was rewarded with a presidency. The only people who would be silenced by being forced to use their real names are people from marginalised groups.

@mia the problem with that is global politics. And doxxing.

Having all your accounts connected increases the likelihood of your post history revealing enough for you to be doxxed.

Governments have been known to use Grindr profiles to find queer people after deciding to prosecute gayness again for example. Right now you can just scrub that account without it being connected to your main. This would make it harder to take these kinds of protective measures.