I support anyone’s right to post anonymously if they choose, but I think people should consider using their real identities if possible.

Anonymity confers a certain amount of power and invulnerability, but showing your face takes more courage and sends a message that what I am doing *is* normal and legitimate, and I don’t need to hide while doing it.

I get it that governments can harm you, but paradoxically the more people who stand up with their real identities, the less power they have to do that harm.

If only people hidden in the shadows are using NOSTR or bitcoin, then it’s easy to see it as a fringe, subversive thing. While it *will* subvert the existing grift going on among the ruling class, that subversion is healthy and wholesome, a return to providing value instead of rent-seeking, then people will have to adapt to that healthy subversion.

In short don’t play into the framework that you have to hide yourself as though you are doing something wrong. You are not, and the more people who are open about it, the persuasive it will be as an alternate paradigm.