475 million of them are accidentally clicking on a link in Instagram and getting annoyed
Reputation is better than money when the reward is attention. This is why persistent pseudonyms are the preferred solution.
This fact is obvious to anyone who has been a not-white-dude on the internet. Unfortunately, white dudes tend to be the ones making policy.
It is a fallacy that anonymity creates negative behavior on the internet.
Anonymity levels the playing field between white dudes and everyone else, so white dudes perceive spaces that allow anonymity as more hostile.
Anonymity protects everyone else.
Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done
See also
jilliancyork.com/2021/01/14/e...
A couple AI "translations" that have been confidently shoved in my face in recent years thanks to search engines:
To be on the ropes/lose ground -> a little bit old-fashioned
Pearls before swine -> small size for cat
They're worse than dictionaries.
