I remember reading an article where the CEO of Myspace said one of the main reasons Facebook won was because of its real name policy. <edit>I found the quote [

I remember reading an article where the CEO of Myspace said one of the main reasons Facebook won was because of its real name policy. <edit>I found the quote [0], which I had quoted in my essay "Why Twitter Should Verify More Users: Towards a More Human Web" [1]: > Facebook’s killer feature was that it replicated the real world by forcing people to use their real names, whereas MySpace users used pseudonymous handles [0]: https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-myspace-ceo-explains-why-101300285.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-myspace-ceo-explains-why-1... [1]: https://medium.com/hackmentalhealth/why-twitter-should-verify-more-users-towards-a-more-human-web-9b7975aac414 https://medium.com/hackmentalhealth/why-twitter-should-verif... </edit> I know one of the things I loved about Facebook was interacting with university-verified humans. Then it got flooded with more and more spam accounts. I hope either these platforms or the next generation of platforms realize there is a strong opportunity for real-name policy platforms. It won't be the whole market, but I'm personally really tired of anonymous accounts. I mostly come to HN because there aren't many real-name platforms that talk about these things. Maybe that's because lots of people don't want it. I guess I just don't buy that argument. I think there's a niche for sure.