It feels a bit weird, but that’s not my main complaint (though IMO NOSTR would grow a lot faster were there more real names attached.)

My main complaint is that while private communications and life details should remain private, public square posts should be with names attached to the extent we want a robust public square and to beat back censorship.

And yes, it’s true anyone can pose as a real-life person while faking it, but I’m more talking about nyms who are obviously real people and encouraging them to post under their real names. The issue of verifying that is separate, though obviously important in that case.

I love the platform, BTW — just think now that we have this freedom tech, it’s the time to stand up for the courage of our convictions in the open.

I agree your generation has gotten screwed. But hiding and sucking up in person, while shitposting behind an anon handle is not the way out IMO. Stand up for what you believe. Work for people who won’t fire you over dissent.

If your options seem like (a) suck up and be quiet; or (b) go without work, find option (c).

Don’t conflate privacy and anonymity in the public square — not the same thing.

You didn’t read the post. I am very pro privacy. Just not anon handles when posting to the *public* square, though it should certainly be *legal* to do so, just discouraged.

not relevant to the post which is that most of the people here are not nearly as screwed as they pretend to be. They’re just fearful.

No idea what you’re talking about. I’m saying most people on NOSTR don’t need to hide, and that there are people in the world who do doesn’t change that.

I state my reasons clearly in the piece. Why are so many millennials against posting under their own names?

LOL, imagine living your entire life terrified because of what a potential employer might think of you.

You obviously didn’t read the post:

Short term benefits and medium-term risks aside, I’m generally against the practice, though I wouldn’t go so far as to require platforms to KYC (Know Your Customer), and obviously doxxing people, barring proof they’ve committed a crime (a real one, not a thought crime) is wrong. In other words, I think it should be legal, but discouraged.

If you’re a gay person in Uganda, it’s pretty clear you shouldn’t be posting your real thoughts under your real name. That’s not the case for 80 percent of the people here with nyms though to whom the post is obviously addressed.

This really is the ethos on NOSTR that the post was about. People are acting like they’re in the same situation as Jews in Nazi Germany!

That level of fear is ideal if I’m the State wanting to crush dissent and keep people from standing up.

The irony is the more people have this fear, the greater the likelihood the State is emboldened to cross line after line.

You have this freedom technology now. Use it openly. nostr:note1u89lmewh6j0ntegeepew2mvm42fe090kc8samwd9ry22xgry7tkqnd2lsf

No one is arguing you are not allowed to speak anonymously. I am simply discouraging it. Where people speak with their names attached without fear, no one gets put in a cell for it, and those who try to put them in a cell would be the ones who need to fear.

Truckers are a good example. They won:

https://www.sott.net/article/481158-The-Truckers-Won-Everything

I’m sure you have some decent, though imperfect ways to do so. My twitter account, my Substack, my photo, etc. I’m easy to find.

The only thing that’s destined to fail is the strategy of staying anonymous while the censors take away more and more of our rights.

If everyone stood up and told them to fuck off, the flight would be over today. And I can’t order anyone to do anything. I can only say, “Look, I’m going to charge, and I encourage you to back me up because we are in the right, and this is important.”

thanks — appreciate your engaging on this respectfully and in good faith.

Yes, my argument is that you feel you need to hide behind a handle to express yourself freely means things have gone very wrong. And IMO the way to remedy that is to stand up for our rights in broad daylight. Otherwise, they will only further erode.

I don’t mean to get too caught up on the war analogy, but more the Game Theory. Sometimes people settle on a suboptimal outcome for fear of a worse one, when if they cooperated, they would get a far better one.

The fact is if everyone who believed trans women playing women’s sports is a joke, said so loudly and under their real names, that shit never would have gotten started. I use this as a trivial example.

But no one wanted to speak up because they could get cancelled, so we have this absurdities which we permit.

We empower the tyrant by fearing him and validate the censor by not exercising our rights to free speech, consequences be damned.

Encryption is for private messages. I’m talking about ideas you want to see proliferate in the public square.

I covered this in the post. Skin in the game is one aspect of it, but you still have less, and there are many other aspects.

I covered that in the post. You have *something* to lose, but not as much. And that’s not my primary argument against it.