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I don't know about others, but anything that requires me to log in with Facebook ends up stopping me from using it because I don't want all my contacts to see that I signed up for it.

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I agree 100%. I was going to give it a shot but I won't use anything that requires a facebook login either.

I cannot agree more. I deleted my facebook account.

I don't want Facebook knowing I used this, or anyone else, or anything. Just no.

fragsworth. We will implement other logins soon. This was just an MVP and we wanted to have something "in the real world" to avoid people posting racist items.

I think you forgot the "V" in MVP... If we are free to be assholes in the social network and say what we really think ('cuz we are all assholes deep inside :-) ), the very last thing I want to do is tie it to my real-life account on FB.

Easy for you guys to implement, yes. "Viable"? I think not.

not sure if they implemented this in this mv?p but there is a trivial and at the same time incredibly unused solution: just add a checkbox "post anonimously" next to every interaction form.

Viable? Who knows. Hilarious? Yes! Now let us click through to peoples' profiles to view all their posts and it'll be awesome!

A social network that bases itself on the idea that by default you're "friends" with everybody should not have any barrier to entry, by the basic philosophy of the thing.

If I can't see why I might want to join without joining, I'm not going to join, plain and simple.

Are you sure you don't want to ban swear words too? Banning racist remarks on a trolling platform seems almost like forbidding anything pink on a my little pony site.

Statistics* show that conversions go up when users are offered a social alternative.

* I don't know where these stats are, or what the figures actually are. People just keep telling me this over and over again.

alternative is the key word there. trollblock gives you no other option

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