| ▲ | dabockster 5 days ago | |
> The internet went from 'YouTube asking users to never use your real name' to 'you have to submit your ID to some random app' in 10 years. Crazy! Because we couldn't get anyone to take the internet seriously if it was just a bunch of anonymous pseudonyms trolling each other. And maybe that was a mistake. | ||
| ▲ | lupusreal 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
It was definitely a mistake. The internet was not meant to be taken seriously. Measures like real name policies are designed to make people take it seriously but that is to the detriment of the users who do. Just look at Facebook. Users with real names sharing all kinds of inane schizo nonsense, extremism, building echo chambers without realizing it, becoming completely divorced from reality as perceived by the majority of people around them in meatspace, because they section themselves off in cyberspace. | ||
| ▲ | hdgvhicv 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
When I started on the internet it was common to use real name, and indeed include things like addresses and phone numbers in usenet .sigs | ||