> Being able to quickly register new "throw-away" accounts is useful for those with the "right" opinion, and because of the fingerprinting and tracking, useless

> Being able to quickly register new "throw-away" accounts is useful for those with the "right" opinion, and because of the fingerprinting and tracking, useless to those with the "wrong" opinion. Nah, anybody who has the wrong opinions and is sufficiently confident about it knows that they can learn about how to deal with fingerprinting and tracking - if they really believed those "wrong" opinions, they'd be able to push through that friction. Many people are just terrified of being wrong about their own beliefs and hurting somebody, so they stop believing anything. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - can somebody provide extraordinary evidence, or do they just say "it's obvious!" "It's obvious" is giving up, of course. It's important to give up sometimes, but that's okay! The most interesting folks on Reddit are the ones who don't care whether they'll get upvoted or not - they care about being right. This means sometimes being downvoted, which is scary. They're signalling that they can ignore that- the signal is the signal is the medium is the message, etc, etc. Unfortunately, this often annoys people who don't get why the signallers can't Just Say The Secret. So the signallers are often downvoted! (In smaller communities, this is less common, but beyond a certain critical mass, statistical dynamics take over). But the secret is that qualia exist (that you Just Can't Say The Secret, that's a type error, as much as the number 9293176 jumping out of your computer and hitting you with a baseball bat would be. The letter 9372513 is not real and cannot hurt you.), and that the secret is one of 'em. Sometimes, a post is just wrong, y'know? So it goes.