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Why are we anonymous here?
Submitted 1 year ago by froghorse@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com 1 year ago
cedarmesa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We dont have to be anonymous here. Go ahead and post your name, address, where you work. Did you just cringe at the thought? Thats why we’re anonymous here.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 1 year ago
P. Sherman
42 Wallaby Way.
Sydney.
half@lemmy.world 1 year ago
RespectfullyNo@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m on my way. You’re gonna be sorry, fucko
froghorse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Impressive.
Don’t you fear crazy people tracking you down and doing crazy stuff to you in reprisal for all the deviant stuff you’ve said?
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
froghorse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s an evasion.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
My name is Yoshikage Kira. I’m 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don’t smoke, but I occasionally drink. I’m in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I’m trying to explain that I’m a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn’t lose to anyone.
atlasraven31@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Want to have some drinks between 8-11pm?
froghorse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I cringe at the thought, yes. But that’s because I have angered people here.
So is that it? You want to be anonymous because you have angered people here and fear those people coming after you?
jesterraiin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because we do not enjoy the invasion on our privacy.
froghorse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So you’re anonymous because you like being anonymous.
ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not OP, but kind of…
It’s a liberating feeling to be a part of a conversation without having to deal with social factors like gender, race, socioeconomic status, etc.
brandon@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I have a feeling the real answer is “why not?”
froghorse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s evasive.
brandon@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Can you elaborate on that? I can’t really come up with a good reason why I’d need to know who anyone is here.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
This is a boundary that I like to have set. There is no actual need for my shitposts and general thoughts be linked to my name. I don’t espouse hate, nor do I try to spread misinformation. That doesn’t mean that I would be fine having anything I’ve ever posted/replied to being easily linked to me.
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 year ago
We’re not; we’re pseudonymous here.
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Isn’t it the opposite? Nobody would give out their real name online until Facebook came along and normalized it. Google then forced your personal Gmail email account to be your account for everything as well.
eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 1 year ago
I mean this username has been in use by me for like 20 years so idk how anonymous it really is. It’s at least not directly tied to my full name though I doubt it would be very hard to find.
half@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Individual data points like “I take pilates”, “I work nights and weekends”, and “I live in Smalltown, ST” might not mean anything on their own, but if you can connect this data to a single person, then realize there’s only one pilates studio in Smalltown, then look up their hours and notice there’s only one day class on weekdays, you can make a reasonable guess as to a regular time when a person is away from home. This is called data brokerage.
This is a comically contrived example; the real danger is in the association of countless data points spread across millions of correlated identities. It’s not just your data, it’s the association of your data with that of your friends and family. Most people are constantly streaming their location, purchases, beliefs, and affiliations out to anyone who cares enough to look. Strangers collate their data and use it to take advantage of them, and their only response is prohibitive legislation. As if we don’t already have prohibitive legislation.
Anonymity is expensive, inconvenient, and fragile, but it’s the only mechanism that protects individuals from the information economy, which I would put right next to ecology in terms of critical 21st-22nd century social problems. It also helps us resist censorship, but that’s a different essay.
Prettyblackroses@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bc ppl black mail you with your personal stuff if you post it
froghorse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This has never happened to me (when I posted personal stuff). Has it happened to you?
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Why do you want to know who I am irl?
Deestan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I must know if you’re really my uncle who is also a parrot.
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I really am, but I have 4 total, 2 macaws and 2 parrotlets!
froghorse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s evasive.
Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
No it isn’t.
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
but, why do you want to know who I really am?
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Leaving aside the fact that we aren’t anonymous, pseudonymous at best, this is essentially my common law name. Back in the day (before everyone got married and/or moved away) you could go into my local and ask for the Emperor and someone would be able to point me out.
ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why is this being downvoted? It’s a really good question and one that should be available to everyone if they ever think about it in the future.
OP’s comment replies are also being downvoted even though it drips of genuine curiosity. Why are the Lemmings behaving like Redditors?
A_A@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To avoid the inflatable neighbor syndrome which is a plague in Facebook and the likes.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is it so strange to just be a private person? It’s a personal preference, it makes me feel comfortable. There doesn’t have to be a particular reason for it.
froghorse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
PRO
Keeps the crazy people from tracking you down.
CON
Splits your reputation.
ANY MORE?
r00ty@kbin.life 1 year ago
It only has an effect on reputation, if you're in the minority being anonymous. If the vast majority of us are using pseudonyms, then we're all on the same starting point in that respect.
Deestan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s better for discussion when everyone’s look, personality, gender, skin, species etc. takes less of a focus. And it takes less effort. Pseudonymous online communities have been the most popular type since the early 90s.
Deestan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More and gooder words on this internet here ------> …wikipedia.org/…/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_yo…
froghorse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Good answer!