theowraithical physicspixelfed is appealing because its basically early instagram, but instagram is so poisoned now that i kind of cant even imagine the innocence of just posting random pictures and having my friends like them anymore
its funny when i think about like, internet flame wars in the 00s and how everyone thought attaching your real name to things on the internet would make everyone more civil, and actually what happened is racist grandpas took over the internet and advertising algorithms broke everyones brains
keithzg@dankwraith @ajroach42 I think there's truth to the idea that people will be more civil when they aren't anonymous, problem is there's just so many people online, often in such crowded, unified forums as Twitter and Facebook and newspaper comments sections, that people *are* nonetheless effectively anonymous.
Smaller social circles where people are pseudonymous can actually solve this and function well in ways that huge crowds of eponymous folks can't.
@keithzg @ajroach42 yea i bet there's some truth to this
radikalgrafitio 
@keithzg @ajroach42 @dankwraith theres some evidence that people behave worse when using there real names https://qz.com/741933/internet-trolls-are-even-more-hostile-when-theyre-using-their-real-names-a-study-finds/
@radikalgrafitio Eh, even the synopsis in the article makes it seem far more complicated than that, and the headline there isn't really supported by the text.