Avoiding the whole "real-name privilege" rabbit hole, I still stand by the point that nothing compels you to use their service/product -- there are a host of ot

Avoiding the whole "real-name privilege" rabbit hole, I still stand by the point that nothing compels you to use their service/product -- there are a host of other products that allow the user to go by whatever pseudonym he/she deems fit. If the response is "no popular social network I want to use allows me to use a pseudonym to my liking," I again refer to one of my original points that there's probably a reason why it doesn't last, and why networks that try to allow it like Ello eventually don't grow/survive -- people put trust in a social network that feels like a network of real people. If you want citation for the last point, I'd point to the fast success of NextDoor, but I concede it's mostly a hypothesis, as I don't regularly use that product and haven't seen it since the beta.