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Most of the people I follow on nostr are posting under pseudonyms. I respect wanting to be anonymous online (especially when posting regime-antagonistic content), and maybe I’m a fool to post under my real identity, but I think if you really want to grow the platform, we need more people IDing themselves.

Again, I don’t expect the most controversial posters to martyr themselves (I am conscious that nostr posts are forever, and don’t necessarily say things as harshly as I might be inclined), but voting mask-off for freedom is more powerful than doing it in the shadows.

Just a thought — I’d rather people be anonymous than silent, but we shouldn’t be afraid to stand up for (as of now) legally protected speech. In some ways, all this free-speech hall-monitoring is a trial balloon, to see if it gets everyone to scurry away and hide. But imagine if everyone spoke out 10x more forcefully than they expected. It would be they scurrying away, not us.

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Veritas ✝️🇺🇲⚓⚡💊 2y ago

Actually, I've got both an ID account and multiple anonymous accounts. All my social media accounts were non-anonymous until I experienced Lemmy where it seems non-marxist posts are frequently met with numerous personal insults. One account even attempted to direct a campaign of harassment against me through emails and telephone calls.

Chris Liss 2y ago

I had a whole mob of losers come after me because I posted a tweet suggesting outdoor maskers made me feel creeped out, like they’d burn me at the stake as a matter of civic duty. So I get it.