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accountability. Using your real name on social media makes you much more accountable than using a pseudonym. Some people really believe in that (I do too, just not on most social media platforms)

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I’m not sure I understood what you mean by “accountability”. Platforms that have tried to enforce real world identities, like Facebook, have clearly shown that putting one’s name to a piece of content has very little to do with how nasty people will be. We also know at least a few (if not several) prominent people on Twitter who say and do nasty things while posting with their real names and identities.

What people put online and how they convey things are more about what people are innately than about putting real names and photos around.

Putting real names and identities also exposes people (those vulnerable due to circumstances or those who’re against commonly held notions in their social setting).

Also see: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/08/04/real-na...

There’s no reasonable way of verifying a real name for an open source platform like Mastodon

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