That’s definitely a pretty important distinction, and I’m definitely interested to see if there’ll ever be a federate platform that does emphasize real identities. Growing that would be very hard given the network effects, but TikTok etc show that it is possible, at least.
I think PixelFed is going in this direction if I’m not mistaken. Also to your points and which I keep bringing up… you can have both anonymous and Real identities interacting directly with each other here. Of course other social media sites can do this somewhat but they all encourage you to give them as much info as possible.
Doesn’t Mastodon do identities? I feel like I’ve seen a lot of people on there doing names and photos. Those may be professional names (pen names, screen names, etc) rather than what’s on their driver’s license, but it still allows them to get direct, personal attention rather than anonymous interaction.
That’s definitely a pretty important distinction, and I’m definitely interested to see if there’ll ever be a federate platform that does emphasize real identities. Growing that would be very hard given the network effects, but TikTok etc show that it is possible, at least.
I think PixelFed is going in this direction if I’m not mistaken. Also to your points and which I keep bringing up… you can have both anonymous and Real identities interacting directly with each other here. Of course other social media sites can do this somewhat but they all encourage you to give them as much info as possible.
Doesn’t Mastodon do identities? I feel like I’ve seen a lot of people on there doing names and photos. Those may be professional names (pen names, screen names, etc) rather than what’s on their driver’s license, but it still allows them to get direct, personal attention rather than anonymous interaction.