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> The internet went from 'YouTube asking users to never use your real name' to 'you have to submit your ID to some random app' in 10 years. Crazy! Because we c
by dabockster 1y ago
> The internet went from 'YouTube asking users to never use your real name' to 'you have to submit your ID to some random app' in 10 years. Crazy!
Because we couldn't get anyone to take the internet seriously if it was just a bunch of anonymous pseudonyms trolling each other. And maybe that was a mistake.
- hdgvhicv 1y agoWhen I started on the internet it was common to use real name, and indeed include things like addresses and phone numbers in usenet .sigs
- lupusreal 1y agoIt was definitely a mistake. The internet was not meant to be taken seriously. Measures like real name policies are designed to make people take it seriously but that is to the detriment of the users who do. Just look at Facebook. Users with real names sharing all kinds of inane schizo nonsense, extremism, building echo chambers without realizing it, becoming completely divorced from reality as perceived by the majority of people around them in meatspace, because they section themselves off in cyberspace.
- dabockster 1y ago> The internet was not meant to be taken seriously. Coming from all the pro-Internet and open web talk of the 2010s still rattling around in my brain, this felt like dunking my head in an ice bath. Painful but necessary.