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internet would be better with total anonymity.

by kfrzcode 3y ago

awesome_dude 3y ago
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- Firmwarrior 3y ago
  Well, to be fair, some of the most vile hateful stuff I've ever seen in my life was posted on Facebook-powered comment sections under news articles, next to real names and pictures of smiling grandparents holding their grandchildren
  - kfrzcode 3y ago
    Your experience is very different than mine.
- WalterBright 3y ago
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  - awesome_dude 3y ago
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    - WalterBright 3y ago
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- ziml77 3y ago
  It's a really tough situation. I want both at the exact same time. But since that's not possible, I lean towards anonymity. Stuff that's published on the internet is out there forever. Because of automated tools that exist now and that will only get better in the future, it will be easy to surface. And it's hard because there's so many ways someone could make connections that aren't immediately obvious. For example, I used to have my home's IP address set as a subdomain of the same one I use for email (for VPNing in). But later I thought about it and realized that anyone could easily look at the DNS records for my domain and know more than I really want them to.
xur17 3y ago
That's one of my favorite parts of reddit. Accounts are just pseudonyms, and you can generate as many as you want. I personally generate a new one every few months, which helps keep too much identifying data from building up over time.
- kfrzcode 3y ago
  and they're all identifiably attached to your metadata package(s)
  - drdaeman 3y ago
    Which, at the very least, isn't public to everyone. So, not perfect, but better than single public account.
  - xur17 3y ago
    Not sure I follow.
nostrfanboi 3y ago
it'll be nice to have options nostr is allowing for more options and Jack Dorsey happens to have put up a 1 billion sats bounty to """Create a “complete” Nostr-based suite of git tools, such that projects like bitcoin-core are sufficiently confident to move away from GitHub.""" https://bountsr.org/nostr-based-github/ https://bountsr.org/nostr-based-github/
eek2121 3y ago
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- kfrzcode 3y ago
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  - DropInIn 3y ago
    If you really were on the web since before gnu/Linux you would never have expressed it that way... You'd say you were around when you dialed into BBSes.... Like those who actually were on the "web" before gnu/Linux.... Do you actually understand what you claimed with that? Quick edit: just in case it's not clear enough "First released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds" "By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web"..."In 1991 the Commercial Internet eXchange was founded" Unless you were friends with Tim it's literally impossible....

internet would be better with total anonymity.

awesome_dude 3y ago

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Firmwarrior 3y ago
Well, to be fair, some of the most vile hateful stuff I've ever seen in my life was posted on Facebook-powered comment sections under news articles, next to real names and pictures of smiling grandparents holding their grandchildren
- kfrzcode 3y ago
  Your experience is very different than mine.
WalterBright 3y ago
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- awesome_dude 3y ago
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ziml77 3y ago
It's a really tough situation. I want both at the exact same time. But since that's not possible, I lean towards anonymity. Stuff that's published on the internet is out there forever. Because of automated tools that exist now and that will only get better in the future, it will be easy to surface. And it's hard because there's so many ways someone could make connections that aren't immediately obvious. For example, I used to have my home's IP address set as a subdomain of the same one I use for email (for VPNing in). But later I thought about it and realized that anyone could easily look at the DNS records for my domain and know more than I really want them to.

xur17 3y ago

That's one of my favorite parts of reddit. Accounts are just pseudonyms, and you can generate as many as you want. I personally generate a new one every few months, which helps keep too much identifying data from building up over time.

kfrzcode 3y ago
and they're all identifiably attached to your metadata package(s)
- drdaeman 3y ago
  Which, at the very least, isn't public to everyone. So, not perfect, but better than single public account.
- xur17 3y ago
  Not sure I follow.

nostrfanboi 3y ago

it'll be nice to have options nostr is allowing for more options and Jack Dorsey happens to have put up a 1 billion sats bounty to """Create a “complete” Nostr-based suite of git tools, such that projects like bitcoin-core are sufficiently confident to move away from GitHub.""" https://bountsr.org/nostr-based-github/ https://bountsr.org/nostr-based-github/

eek2121 3y ago

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kfrzcode 3y ago
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- DropInIn 3y ago
  If you really were on the web since before gnu/Linux you would never have expressed it that way... You'd say you were around when you dialed into BBSes.... Like those who actually were on the "web" before gnu/Linux.... Do you actually understand what you claimed with that? Quick edit: just in case it's not clear enough "First released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds" "By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web"..."In 1991 the Commercial Internet eXchange was founded" Unless you were friends with Tim it's literally impossible....